32.4% ▲ +90.7%
Lower than 92% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Tamworth · Urban Area
Religion in Tamworth
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A rise of 15 percentage points in people reporting no religion has shaped the spiritual landscape of Tamworth since 2011. While this shift is significant, more than half of the population still identify as Christians, making the area more religious than the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith here at 55.8%, while 32.4% of people have no religion. This last group is well below the national figure of 38.9% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Tamworth, Christianity is the majority at 56%; No religion is next at 32%.
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- Anglican 22.0%
- Catholic 21.9%
- Other Christian 4.0%
- Uniting Church 3.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.6%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 32.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- 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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1032/tamworth/topic/religion