40.8% —
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Nowra - Bomaderry · Urban Centre
Religion in Nowra - Bomaderry
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Nowra - Bomaderry, where 45.2% of people identify with the religion. However, the area is seeing a rapid shift toward secularism, with the number of people reporting no religion jumping by 18 percentage points since 2016.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40.8% of residents now have no religion, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 33.2%. Other faiths are less common here, including Hinduism at 1.2% and Buddhism at 1.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Nowra - Bomaderry splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (41%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 17.1%
- Anglican 15.9%
- Other Christian 4.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.6%
- Uniting Church 2.3%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- No religion 40.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Nowra - Bomaderry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112015/nowra-bomaderry/topic/religion