43.7% ▲ +65.9%
Higher than 56% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 43.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Remainder of State/Territory · Section of State Range
Religion in Remainder of State/Territory
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift toward secularism is clear in the Remainder of State/Territory, where the number of people reporting no religion jumped by 17 percentage points since 2011. Now, 43.7% of residents identify as non-religious, a figure well above the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 43.7% of people have no religion, 39.5% identify as Christian. Other faiths are less common, with Buddhism at 0.8%, other religions at 0.6%, and Islam at 0.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Remainder of State/Territory splits fairly evenly between No religion (44%) and Christianity (39%), with Not stated at 15%.
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- No religion 43.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 14.7%
- Anglican 13.1%
- Other Christian 5.8%
- Uniting Church 2.2%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.3%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.2%
- Sikhism 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 Remainder of State/Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR531/remainder-of-state-territory/topic/religion