46.7% ▲ +82.7%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cowes · Urban Centre
Religion in Cowes
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Cowes report having no religion, which is well above the national figure. This reflects a significant shift in the area, with the number of people not identifying with a faith climbing 21 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 46.7% of residents have no religion, a figure well above the 39.3% seen in Victoria. Christianity follows at 42.4%, while Buddhism, Hinduism and other faiths each account for about 1% or less.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cowes splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (42%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- No religion 46.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
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- Catholic 16.0%
- Anglican 13.3%
- Uniting Church 4.1%
- Other Christian 3.0%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.0%
- Baptist 2.0%
- Orthodox 1.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- Sikhism 0.7%
- 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 Cowes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214006/cowes/topic/religion