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Mornington Peninsula ShireCommunity profile

Moorooduc - Tuerong

Religion

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In Moorooduc - Tuerong in 2021, the largest religious group was Western (Roman) Catholic (19.1% of all people), while 52.1% of people had no religion and 6.0% did not answer the question on religion.

Moorooduc - Tuerong's religion statistics provide an indicator of cultural identity and ethnicity when observed in conjunction with other key variables. Religion data reveal the major concentrations of religions as well as revealing the proportion of people with no religious affiliation. There are a number of reasons for different religious compositions across areas including the country of birth and ethnic background of the population, the age of the population (belief in religion is generally stronger, the older the population) and changes in values and belief systems.

Moorooduc - Tuerong's religion statistics should be analysed in conjunction with other ethnicity statistics such as Country of Birth data and Language Spoken data to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups.

Please note: Due to changes in ABS rules around perturbation and additivity of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual religion groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.

Q:

Derived from the Census question:

'What is the person's religion?'

Religion - Summary
Moorooduc - Tuerong - Total persons (Usual residence)20212016Change
Religion totalsNumber%Mornington Peninsula Shire %Number%Mornington Peninsula Shire %2016 to 2021
Christian total54040.142.267946.950.2-139
Non Christian total120.91.6130.91.5-1
Non-classifiable religious belief110.80.7120.80.7-1
No Religion/secular beliefs70152.148.854937.939.1+152
Not stated816.06.819513.58.5-114
Total Population1,345100.0100.01,448100.0100.0-103
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information
Religion - Ranked by size
Moorooduc - Tuerong - Total persons (Usual residence)20212016Change
ReligionNumber%Mornington Peninsula Shire %Number%Mornington Peninsula Shire %2016 to 2021
Western (Roman) Catholic25719.118.430120.720.5-44
Anglican17613.112.622315.416.4-47
Uniting Church423.13.0644.43.8-22
Presbyterian and Reformed221.61.9352.42.8-13
Christian,nfd171.31.60--2.0+17
Baptist100.71.2261.81.3-16
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information

Excludes religions with fewer than 10 adherents.

Dominant groups

Analysis of the religious affiliation of the population of Moorooduc - Tuerong in 2021 compared to Mornington Peninsula Shire shows that there was a lower proportion of people who professed a religion and a higher proportion who stated they had no religion.

Overall, 41.0% of the population nominated a religion, and 52.1% said they had no religion, compared with 43.7% and 48.8% respectively for Mornington Peninsula Shire.

The largest single religion in Moorooduc - Tuerong was Western (Roman) Catholic, with 19.1% of the population or 257 people as adherents.

There were no major differences between Moorooduc - Tuerong and Mornington Peninsula Shire in 2021.

Emerging groups

There were no major differences in Moorooduc - Tuerong between 2016 and 2021.

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