44.7% ▲ +109.4%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 44.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gympie · Urban Area
Religion in Gympie
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A growing number of people in Gympie now identify as having no faith, with 44.7% of residents reporting no religion. This shift is a defining feature of the area's social landscape, as the number of people without a faith has climbed 23 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Nearly half of the population (44.7%) reports no religion, a figure well above the national average of 38.9%. While Christianity remains the most common affiliation at 46.1%, other faiths like Buddhism (0.5%) and Islam (0.3%) represent very small portions of the community.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gympie splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (45%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- Catholic 13.7%
- Anglican 11.8%
- Other Christian 8.7%
- Uniting Church 6.7%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.2%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Baptist 1.4%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 44.1%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3008/gympie/topic/religion