41.8% ▲ +84.8%
Lower than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Coffs Harbour · Urban Area
Religion in Coffs Harbour
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A much higher share of people in Coffs Harbour report no religion compared to the New South Wales average. While 45% of the population identify as Christians, those with no religious affiliation now make up 41.8% of the community.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The number of people with no religion has risen by 19 percentage points since 2011, reaching 41.8%. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2% and a little above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Coffs Harbour splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 17.3%
- Anglican 14.4%
- Other Christian 4.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.8%
- Uniting Church 2.3%
- Baptist 1.7%
- Pentecostal 1.7%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 41.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Sikhism 2.5%
- Other religious groups 1.0%
- 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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1011/coffs-harbour/topic/religion