30.3% ▲ +60.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Coober Pedy · Urban Centre
Religion in Coober Pedy
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Forty per cent of people in Coober Pedy identify as Christians, making it the most common religious group here. While those with no religion are much fewer than in most other areas, this group has still grown over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40% of residents identify with Christianity and 5.1% with Buddhism. Those reporting no religion make up 30.3% of the population, which is far below the South Australian figure of 45.8%, though this number rose 11 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Coober Pedy, the largest group is Christianity at 40%, followed by No religion (30%) and Not stated (22%).
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- Catholic 15.7%
- Other Christian 7.0%
- Orthodox 6.7%
- Anglican 4.9%
- Uniting Church 1.8%
- Pentecostal 1.2%
- Baptist 0.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.5%
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- No religion 29.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.5%
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- Aboriginal traditional 0.7%
- Sikhism 0.5%
- 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 Coober Pedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415010/coober-pedy/topic/religion