46.8% ▲ +81.0%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Riverton · Urban Centre
Religion in Riverton
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Nearly half of the population in Riverton (L) now reports having no religion, a figure well above the national average. This shift is part of a significant trend where the number of non-religious residents has jumped by 21 percentage points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Those with no religion make up 46.8% of the area, which is higher than most similar places and slightly above the South Australian figure. Christianity is also common at 44.4%, while other religions like Buddhism and Judaism each account for 0.4%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Riverton splits fairly evenly between No religion (47%) and Christianity (45%), with Not stated at 7%.
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- No religion 46.9%
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- Catholic 12.7%
- Uniting Church 9.2%
- Other Christian 9.2%
- Anglican 8.6%
- Baptist 1.1%
- Pentecostal 0.5%
- Orthodox 0.4%
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- Other religious groups 0.5%
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 Riverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421035/riverton/topic/religion