33.0% ▲ +105.5%
Lower than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bathurst · Urban Area
Religion in Bathurst
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people identify as having no religion in Bathurst than in most similar areas. While a majority of the community is Christian, the number of residents reporting no faith has risen by 17 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 55.5%, followed by those with no religion at 33.0%. This last group is well below the national figure of 38.9%, though it is about the same as the New South Wales average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Bathurst, Christianity is the majority at 55%; No religion is next at 33%.
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- Catholic 28.7%
- Anglican 15.2%
- Other Christian 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.3%
- Uniting Church 3.0%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 32.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
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 Bathurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1005/bathurst/topic/religion