34.9% ▲ +100.2%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Chinchilla · Urban Centre
Religion in Chinchilla
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than twice as many people in Chinchilla now report having no religion compared to 2011. This shift has seen the share of non-religious residents rise by 17 percentage points to reach 34.9%. Despite this growth, the area remains more religious than the state and national averages.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Half of the population (50.8%) identifies as Christian, while 34.9% report no religion, a figure well below the 41.2% seen across Queensland. Other faiths are less common, with Hinduism at 0.5% and Islam at 0.4%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Chinchilla, Christianity is the majority at 51%; No religion is next at 35%.
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- Catholic 17.1%
- Anglican 13.5%
- Other Christian 8.1%
- Uniting Church 5.1%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 3.3%
- Pentecostal 2.7%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Orthodox 0.0%
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- No religion 34.6%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.1%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
- Sikhism 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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314008/chinchilla/topic/religion