41.2% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 50% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 41.2%
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.
About the same as similar areas, Rural Balance has a fairly even split between people with a faith and those with none. No single religion dominates the landscape, with Christianity and those reporting no religion each making up around 41% of the population.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People reporting no religion now make up 41.2% of the area, a figure that rose 5.9 percentage points since 2011. This is a little above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Rural Balance splits fairly evenly between Christianity (41%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 16%.
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- Catholic 19.1%
- Anglican 12.6%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Uniting Church 1.3%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
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- No religion 40.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.7%
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- Other religious groups 0.7%
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/SOS83/rural-balance/topic/religion