35.3% ▲ +94.7%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Not in any Significant Urban Area · Urban Area
Religion in Not in any Significant Urban Area
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people identify as having no religion in Not in any Significant Urban Area (NSW) compared to the national figure. While over half the population is Christian, the number of people reporting no religion has climbed sharply to 35.3%.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 52.6%, while 35.3% of people have no religion. This last group is much smaller than in most other areas, although the figure rose 17 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Not in any Significant Urban Area, Christianity is the majority at 53%; No religion is next at 35%.
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- Catholic 21.0%
- Anglican 19.2%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Uniting Church 3.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.9%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 34.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/religion