42.4% ▲ +119.9%
Higher than 50% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cairns · Urban Area
Religion in Cairns
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A shift toward secularism is clearly visible in Cairns, where 42.4% of people now report having no religion. This trend is part of a broader change in the city, as the number of people with no religious affiliation has surged by 23 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 42.5%, while those with no religion make up 42.4% of the population. This figure is a little above the Queensland rate and well above the national figure of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cairns splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 19.7%
- Anglican 9.8%
- Other Christian 5.4%
- Uniting Church 2.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Pentecostal 1.5%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 41.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3004/cairns/topic/religion