53.6% ▲ +137.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 53.6%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Mount Pleasant · Urban Centre
Religion in Mount Pleasant
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
More than half of the people in Mount Pleasant (L) now report no religion, a figure that has jumped by 31 percentage points since 2011. This shift makes the area far less religious than the national average, with 53.6% of residents identifying as non-religious.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
The proportion of people with no religion is well above the South Australian figure of 45.8% and far above the Australian average. For those who do identify with a faith, Christianity is the most common at 35.6%, followed by small numbers of Buddhists (0.8%) and other religions (0.6%).
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, No religion is the majority at 53%; Christianity is next at 35%.
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- No religion 51.6%
- Secular beliefs 1.0%
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- Anglican 10.1%
- Other Christian 10.1%
- Catholic 7.9%
- Uniting Church 4.3%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 1.0%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Baptist 0.5%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421027/mount-pleasant/topic/religion