46.1% ▲ +96.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Gladstone · Urban Centre
Religion in Gladstone
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
A rapid shift in beliefs has seen the number of people with no religion in Gladstone jump 23 percentage points since 2011. Now, nearly half of the population—46.1%—identify as non-religious, which is well above the national figure.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
People with no religion make up 46.1% of the area, far higher than the 38.9% seen across Australia. Christianity is the next most common faith at 42.5%, followed by smaller groups of Hindus (1.2%), Buddhists (0.9%), and Muslims (0.6%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →Gladstone splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (43%), with Not stated at 8%.
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- No religion 45.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.3%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Catholic 17.4%
- Anglican 11.2%
- Other Christian 4.8%
- Uniting Church 3.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.5%
- Baptist 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.4%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.3%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- 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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL312002/gladstone/topic/religion