Religion - Ranked by size
Western Ward (Lower Hutt City)
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion - Multi-response | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| No religion | 8,220 | 50.3 | 50.2 | 6,528 | 44.8 | 43.9 | +1,692 | ||
| Buddhism | 213 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 219 | 1.5 | 1.6 | -6 | ||
| Christian | 5,649 | 34.5 | 35.6 | 6,549 | 45.0 | 46.8 | -900 | ||
| Hinduism | 753 | 4.6 | 2.6 | 591 | 4.1 | 2.3 | +162 | ||
| Islam | 102 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 96 | 0.7 | 0.9 | +6 | ||
| Judaism | 15 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 39 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -24 | ||
| Māori religions beliefs and philosophies | 72 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 72 | 0.5 | 0.9 | - | ||
| Spiritualism and new age religions | 81 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 78 | 0.5 | 0.5 | +3 | ||
| Other religions beliefs and philosophies | 336 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 51 | 0.4 | 0.4 | +285 | ||
| Object to answering | 951 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 558 | 3.8 | 4.0 | +393 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | - | - | - | 945 | 6.5 | 8.0 | -945 | ||
| Total | 16,353 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 14,559 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,794 |
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.