41.3% ▲ +60.6%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wangaratta · Urban Area
Religion in Wangaratta
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Wangaratta sits around the middle of similar areas for its religious makeup, with roughly 41% of people reporting no religion. While nearly half the population still identifies as Christian, the number of people with no faith has climbed significantly over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 41.3% of residents in Wangaratta report no religion, a figure that has risen 16 percentage points since 2011 and is a little above the national average. Christianity remains the most common faith at 49.1%, followed by smaller groups of Hindus (0.9%) and Buddhists (0.8%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Wangaratta, the largest group is Christianity at 49%, followed by No religion (41%) and Not stated (7%).
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- Catholic 24.9%
- Anglican 11.6%
- Other Christian 4.4%
- Uniting Church 4.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 41.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Sikhism 0.3%
- Other religious groups 0.3%
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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2019/wangaratta/topic/religion