44.8% ▲ +69.8%
Higher than 70% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 44.8%
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.
Nearly 45% of people in Rural Balance report having no religion, making it the most common response in the area. This shift is significant, as the number of people without a faith has climbed steadily over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is 44.8%, which is well above the Australian figure of 38.9% and rose 18 percentage points since 2011. Christianity is a close second at 43.3%, while Buddhism, Islam, and other faiths each account for less than 1% of residents.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Rural Balance splits fairly evenly between No religion (45%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 10%.
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- No religion 44.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 18.8%
- Anglican 10.5%
- Uniting Church 5.2%
- Other Christian 4.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Orthodox 0.8%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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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/SOS23/rural-balance/topic/religion