40.6% ▲ +156.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Coffs Harbour · Urban Centre
Religion in Coffs Harbour
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A rapid shift toward having no religion has seen that group grow by 25 percentage points since 2011 in Coffs Harbour. Now, 40.6% of residents report no religious affiliation, which is a little above the national figure. This change has made the area's religious landscape much less traditional than it was a decade ago.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common affiliation at 47.1%. However, the 40.6% who claim no religion is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%, while other faiths like Buddhism (1.1%) and Islam (0.5%) represent small minorities.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Coffs Harbour, the largest group is Christianity at 47%, followed by No religion (41%) and Not stated (8%).
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- Catholic 18.4%
- Anglican 14.5%
- Other Christian 4.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.1%
- Uniting Church 2.4%
- Baptist 1.9%
- Pentecostal 1.9%
- Orthodox 0.3%
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- No religion 40.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 1.3%
- Sikhism 0.8%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.1%
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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL111002/coffs-harbour/topic/religion