31.6% ▲ +65.3%
Lower than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wagga Wagga · Urban Area
Religion in Wagga Wagga
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More people in Wagga Wagga hold a religious faith than in most other Australian areas. While the number of people claiming no religion has risen since 2011, over half the population still identifies as Christian.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 57.3%, while 31.6% of residents have no religion. This last group is well below the national figure of 38.9%, though it has risen 12 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Wagga Wagga, Christianity is the majority at 57%; No religion is next at 32%.
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- Catholic 27.4%
- Anglican 15.3%
- Other Christian 4.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.7%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.6%
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- No religion 31.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 1.7%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1035/wagga-wagga/topic/religion