34.9% ▲ +117.0%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lithgow · Urban Area
Religion in Lithgow
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people identify as having no religion in Lithgow compared to the national figure. While a third of residents now report no faith, over half of the community still identifies as Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 52.6%, while 34.9% of people have no religion. This last group has grown by 19 percentage points since 2011, though it remains well below the Australian average of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Lithgow, Christianity is the majority at 53%; No religion is next at 35%.
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- Catholic 20.7%
- Anglican 16.4%
- Uniting Church 5.2%
- Other Christian 4.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.1%
- Baptist 1.4%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 34.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.5%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1019/lithgow/topic/religion