47.0% ▲ +202.7%
Higher than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Sunshine Coast · Urban Area
Religion in Sunshine Coast
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Almost half of all people in the Sunshine Coast report having no religion, a figure that has climbed rapidly in recent years. This shift has made the region significantly less religious than the typical Queensland or Australian community.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 47.0% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 38.9%. This number has risen by 31 percentage points since 2011, while 43.4% of residents still identify as Christians.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Sunshine Coast splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- No religion 46.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Catholic 15.9%
- Anglican 12.3%
- Other Christian 5.9%
- Uniting Church 3.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- 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 Sunshine Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3015/sunshine-coast/topic/religion