49.5% ▲ +83.6%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 49.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Esperance · Urban Area
Religion in Esperance
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Esperance report having no religion. This represents a significant shift for the area, as the number of people identifying this way has climbed by 23 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 49.5% of residents have no religion, a figure far above the national average of 38.9%. Christianity is the next most common group at 37.1%, followed by small numbers of Buddhists (0.7%), other faiths (0.3%), and Muslims (0.1%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Esperance, the largest group is No religion at 49%, followed by Christianity (37%) and Not stated (12%).
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- No religion 49.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Catholic 11.4%
- Anglican 10.7%
- Other Christian 8.5%
- Uniting Church 2.8%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.2%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.1%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
- Sikhism 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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5005/esperance/topic/religion