42.4% ▲ +70.1%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cairns · Urban Centre
Religion in Cairns
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than 42% of people in Cairns now report having no religion, making it a place where secular views are increasingly common. This reflects a significant shift in the community, with a huge jump in the number of people identifying as non-religious over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The typical resident is either Christian (42.5%) or has no religion (42.4%), though the latter group rose by 17 percentage points since 2011. This no-religion figure is well above the national average and slightly higher than the Queensland figure.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cairns splits fairly evenly between Christianity (43%) and No religion (42%), with Not stated at 11%.
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- Catholic 19.7%
- Anglican 9.8%
- Other Christian 5.4%
- Uniting Church 2.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.1%
- Pentecostal 1.5%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.5%
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- No religion 41.9%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.6%
- Other religious groups 0.5%
- 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 Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303001/cairns/topic/religion