33.8% ▲ +85.7%
Lower than 78% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Rural Balance · Section of State
Religion in Rural Balance
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates Rural Balance from the national average for people with no religion. Over half the population identifies as Christian, though a growing number of residents now claim no religious affiliation.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 54.3%, while 33.8% of people have no religion. This last group is much smaller than the Australian figure of 38.9%, even though the number of people with no religion rose 16 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Rural Balance, Christianity is the majority at 54%; No religion is next at 34%.
-
- Catholic 22.5%
- Anglican 18.7%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Uniting Church 3.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.8%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.6%
-
- No religion 33.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
-
- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Rural Balance
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Religion in Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS13/rural-balance/topic/religion