37.9% ▲ +31.9%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Tennant Creek · Urban Centre
Religion in Tennant Creek
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Tennant Creek has fewer people identifying with no religion than most similar areas. While Christianity remains the most common faith at 41.9%, the number of residents claiming no religious affiliation has risen significantly since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
About 37.9% of people here have no religion, a figure that is about the same as the Northern Territory and Australian averages. This group grew by 9.2 percentage points since 2011, while other faiths include Hinduism at 1.8% and Buddhism at 1.1%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →Tennant Creek splits fairly evenly between Christianity (42%) and No religion (38%), with Not stated at 15%.
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- Other Christian 16.0%
- Catholic 13.1%
- Baptist 4.3%
- Anglican 3.7%
- Uniting Church 2.0%
- Pentecostal 1.5%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 0.7%
- Orthodox 0.6%
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- No religion 37.6%
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- Aboriginal traditional 1.1%
- Sikhism 0.3%
- 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 Tennant Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715007/tennant-creek/topic/religion