40.5% ▲ +62.6%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Cooktown · Urban Centre
Religion in Cooktown
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than 40% of people in Cooktown now report having no religion. This shift reflects a significant change in the town's spiritual landscape, with the number of non-religious residents climbing 16 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 42.4%, while those with no religion make up 40.5% of the population. This lack of affiliation is slightly above the national figure and is about the same as the Queensland average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Cooktown splits fairly evenly between Christianity (42%) and No religion (40%), with Not stated at 16%.
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- Other Christian 14.4%
- Catholic 11.8%
- Anglican 10.0%
- Uniting Church 1.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.8%
- Baptist 1.5%
- Pentecostal 1.0%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 39.4%
- Secular beliefs 0.8%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.2%
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315024/cooktown/topic/religion