42.5% ▲ +92.8%
Higher than 51% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lismore · Urban Area
Religion in Lismore
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Lismore sits around the middle of similar areas for its religious makeup. The city has seen a significant shift in beliefs, with the proportion of people reporting no religion jumping 20 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 42.5% of residents now claim no religion, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 33.2%. This leaves Christianity as the largest group at 45.7%, while other faiths like Buddhism and Hinduism each make up around 1% or less.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Lismore splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 19.4%
- Anglican 11.8%
- Other Christian 5.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.7%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 41.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.8%
- Sikhism 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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1018/lismore/topic/religion