40.0% ▲ +113.1%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Central Coast · Urban Centre
Religion in Central Coast
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A sharp 21 percentage point rise in people reporting no religion has shaped the spiritual landscape of Central Coast since 2011. While Christianity remains the most common faith, the area's shift toward no religious affiliation is now more pronounced than in the rest of New South Wales.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40% of people here have no religion, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average and a little above the national one. This is followed by those with a Christian faith at 50.8%, while Buddhism (1.0%) and Hinduism (0.7%) are less common.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Central Coast, Christianity is the majority at 51%; No religion is next at 40%.
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- Catholic 21.8%
- Anglican 16.7%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Uniting Church 2.4%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.0%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.8%
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- No religion 39.5%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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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 Central Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102002/central-coast/topic/religion