30.2% ▲ +23.2%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Miles · Urban Centre
Religion in Miles
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Over half of the population in Miles identifies as Christian, which is a much higher proportion than in most other similar areas. While the number of people reporting no religion has risen to 30.2% since 2011, this figure remains far below the state and national averages.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 52.1%, while those with no religion make up 30.2%. This last group is well below the Australian figure of 38.9%, despite growing by 5.7 percentage points over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Miles, Christianity is the majority at 52%; No religion is next at 30%.
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- Catholic 18.5%
- Anglican 16.6%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 6.9%
- Other Christian 6.9%
- Uniting Church 1.9%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.6%
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- No religion 29.9%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.7%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Sikhism 0.4%
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 Miles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315062/miles/topic/religion