45.0% ▲ +182.9%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Waterfall · Urban Centre
Religion in Waterfall
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Roughly half of the people in Waterfall now report no religious affiliation, placing the area around the middle for its level. This represents a massive shift over the last decade, with the number of people claiming no religion jumping by 29 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
While 46.3% of residents are Christian, 45.0% identify as having no religion, a figure well above the national mark of 38.9%. Other faiths are less common, with Islam at 1.4%, Hinduism at 0.8%, and Buddhism at 0.6%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Waterfall splits fairly evenly between Christianity (46%) and No religion (45%), with Not stated at 6%.
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- Anglican 17.1%
- Catholic 16.0%
- Uniting Church 3.5%
- Other Christian 2.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.3%
- Baptist 1.7%
- Orthodox 1.2%
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- No religion 44.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.8%
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 Waterfall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121118/waterfall/topic/religion