42.7% ▲ +243.6%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lismore · Urban Centre
Religion in Lismore
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A huge 30 percentage point jump in those with no religion since 2011 defines the shifting spiritual landscape of Lismore. Now, 42.7% of the population reports no religious affiliation, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 45.4% of residents identify as Christians, the number of people with no religion is much higher than the New South Wales figure of 33.2%. Other faiths are less common here, with Buddhism and other religions each at 1.2% and Hinduism at 0.5%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Lismore splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (43%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- Catholic 19.3%
- Anglican 11.6%
- Other Christian 5.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.7%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Baptist 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 42.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.3%
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- Other religious groups 0.8%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112012/lismore/topic/religion