47.4% —
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Bendigo · Urban Centre
Religion in Bendigo
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Bendigo report having no religion, a figure that is well above the national average. This shift toward secularism is the most striking trend in the area, where 47.4% of residents now identify as non-religious.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
At 47.4%, the share of people with no religion is much higher than in most other areas and well above the Victorian figure of 39.3%. Christianity remains the next most common affiliation at 42.5%, followed by Buddhism at 1.3%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Bendigo splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- No religion 46.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Catholic 19.0%
- Anglican 9.6%
- Uniting Church 4.8%
- Other Christian 3.8%
- Baptist 2.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Pentecostal 1.1%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
- Other religious groups 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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL203002/bendigo/topic/religion