Religion - Ranked by size
Wellington Region
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion - Multi-response | Number | % | Bay of Plenty Region % | Number | % | Bay of Plenty Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| No religion | 254,364 | 50.2 | 49.9 | 191,778 | 43.9 | 42.4 | +62,586 | ||
| Buddhism | 6,060 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 6,924 | 1.6 | 0.7 | -864 | ||
| Christian | 180,678 | 35.6 | 34.6 | 204,717 | 46.8 | 46.3 | -24,039 | ||
| Hinduism | 13,413 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 10,269 | 2.3 | 1.0 | +3,144 | ||
| Islam | 5,346 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 4,005 | 0.9 | 0.3 | +1,341 | ||
| Judaism | 924 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1,179 | 0.3 | 0.1 | -255 | ||
| Māori religions beliefs and philosophies | 3,687 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 3,861 | 0.9 | 4.3 | -174 | ||
| Spiritualism and new age religions | 2,397 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 2,379 | 0.5 | 0.5 | +18 | ||
| Other religions beliefs and philosophies | 8,979 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1,860 | 0.4 | 1.4 | +7,119 | ||
| Object to answering | 31,938 | 6.3 | 7.3 | 17,457 | 4.0 | 5.4 | +14,481 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | - | - | - | 34,932 | 8.0 | 10.0 | -34,932 | ||
| Total | 506,814 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 437,103 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +69,711 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: High
Excludes religions with fewer than 20 adherents, or less than 0.1% of the total population.