45.8% ▲ +73.0%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
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Religion in Not in any Significant Urban Area
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people report having no religion in Not in any Significant Urban Area (Vic.) than in most similar areas. Nearly 46% of residents identify as non-religious, marking a sharp increase in this trend over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The number of people with no religion has jumped 19 percentage points since 2011 to 45.8%. This is well above the national figure of 38.9%, while those identifying with Christianity make up 42.6% of the population.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Not in any Significant Urban Area splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 10%.
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- No religion 45.3%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 18.1%
- Anglican 10.9%
- Uniting Church 5.2%
- Other Christian 3.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.4%
- Baptist 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/religion