34.0% ▲ +648.2%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Wadeye · Urban Centre
Religion in Wadeye
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Far fewer people identify as having no religion in Wadeye than the national figure. While 34.0% of residents report no faith, this is well below the Australian average of 38.9%. Most of the community still holds a religious affiliation, though the number of people with no faith has risen sharply since 2011.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity is the most common faith at 39.0%, followed by those with no religion at 34.0% and other religions at 11.9%. The proportion of people claiming no religion rose by 29 percentage points since 2011, growing from just 4.5% to 34.0%.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Wadeye, the largest group is Christianity at 39%, followed by No religion (34%) and Not stated (15%).
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- Catholic 36.5%
- Other Christian 1.1%
- Anglican 0.6%
- Uniting Church 0.2%
- Orthodox 0.2%
- Pentecostal 0.2%
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- No religion 32.6%
- Other spiritual beliefs 1.6%
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- Aboriginal traditional 11.8%
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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715008/wadeye/topic/religion