46.1% ▲ +19.9%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Moonta · Urban Centre
Religion in Moonta
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the people in Moonta now report having no religion, reflecting a shift in the spiritual landscape of the town. This trend is part of a wider change where non-religious residents have become the largest single group in the area.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 46.1% of residents have no religion, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen 7.7 percentage points since 2011. This group is slightly larger than those identifying as Christians, who make up 44.2% of the community.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Moonta splits fairly evenly between No religion (46%) and Christianity (44%), with Not stated at 9%.
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- No religion 45.7%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.1%
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- Uniting Church 13.1%
- Catholic 11.3%
- Anglican 8.9%
- Other Christian 6.9%
- Baptist 1.6%
- Pentecostal 0.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.8%
- Orthodox 0.6%
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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 Moonta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415030/moonta/topic/religion