Census: What is your religion? (Multi-response)

Religion - Ranked by size

Western Ward (Porirua City)

2018 2013
Religion - Multi-response Number % Wellington Region % Number % Wellington Region % 2013 - 2018
No religion 5,415 49.1 50.2 4,017 43.4 43.9 +1,398
Buddhism 78 0.7 1.2 108 1.2 1.6 -30
Christian 4,077 37.0 35.6 4,350 47.0 46.8 -273
Hinduism 162 1.5 2.6 126 1.4 2.3 +36
Islam 51 0.5 1.1 45 0.5 0.9 +6
Judaism 9 0.1 0.2 18 0.2 0.3 -9
Māori religions beliefs and philosophies 219 2.0 0.7 243 2.6 0.9 -24
Spiritualism and new age religions 39 0.4 0.5 54 0.6 0.5 -15
Other religions beliefs and philosophies 180 1.6 1.8 54 0.6 0.4 +126
Object to answering 825 7.5 6.3 462 5.0 4.0 +363
Not elsewhere included - - - 1,185 12.8 8.0 -1,185
Total 11,031 100.0 100.0 9,249 100.0 100.0 +1,782

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.