36.6% ▲ +78.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Lightning Ridge · Urban Centre
Religion in Lightning Ridge
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith in Lightning Ridge, where 37.6% of people identify with a church. While many residents still hold a faith, the number of people reporting no religion has climbed steadily over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion now make up 36.6% of the population, a figure that rose 16 points since 2011. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 33.2%, though it remains a little below the national average of 38.9%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Lightning Ridge splits fairly evenly between Christianity (38%) and No religion (37%), with Not stated at 23%.
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- Catholic 14.7%
- Anglican 13.3%
- Other Christian 5.0%
- Orthodox 2.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Uniting Church 0.6%
- Baptist 0.4%
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- No religion 36.0%
- Secular beliefs 0.4%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.4%
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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115098/lightning-ridge/topic/religion