48.4% ▲ +135.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 48.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gisborne · Urban Centre
Religion in Gisborne
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far more people in Gisborne report having no religion compared to most similar areas. Nearly half of the population now identifies as non-religious, a figure that is well above the national average.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion make up 48.4% of the community, which is 9.5 percentage points higher than the Australian figure. This has been a rapid shift, with the number of people reporting no religion rising 28 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gisborne splits fairly evenly between No religion (48%) and Christianity (45%), with Not stated at 4%.
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- No religion 47.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 26.0%
- Anglican 9.2%
- Uniting Church 3.4%
- Other Christian 3.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.5%
- Orthodox 0.7%
- Pentecostal 0.7%
- Baptist 0.6%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
- Other religious groups 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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213006/gisborne/topic/religion