40.4% ▲ +57.2%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Northam · Urban Centre
Religion in Northam
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Northam sits right in the middle of similar areas for the number of people claiming no religion. While 45% of the population identifies as Christian, the number of people without a faith has jumped 15 points since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 40.4% of people here have no religion, which is a little above the national figure. Christianity remains the most common faith at 45%, while Islam, Buddhism and other religions each make up around 1% or less.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Northam splits fairly evenly between Christianity (45%) and No religion (40%), with Not stated at 12%.
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- Catholic 19.0%
- Anglican 11.5%
- Other Christian 9.5%
- Uniting Church 2.3%
- Baptist 1.2%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.6%
- Orthodox 0.5%
- Pentecostal 0.4%
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- No religion 40.0%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.4%
- Sikhism 0.0%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514004/northam/topic/religion