Religion - Ranked by size
Eastern Ward (Wellington City)
2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
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Religion - Multi-response | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
No religion | 19,029 | 50.1 | 50.2 | 15,111 | 44.3 | 43.9 | +3,918 | ||
Buddhism | 639 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 783 | 2.3 | 1.6 | -144 | ||
Christian | 12,846 | 33.8 | 35.6 | 15,117 | 44.3 | 46.8 | -2,271 | ||
Hinduism | 1,536 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 1,416 | 4.1 | 2.3 | +120 | ||
Islam | 660 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 456 | 1.3 | 0.9 | +204 | ||
Judaism | 108 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 111 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -3 | ||
Māori religions beliefs and philosophies | 174 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 210 | 0.6 | 0.9 | -36 | ||
Spiritualism and new age religions | 174 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 171 | 0.5 | 0.5 | +3 | ||
Other religions beliefs and philosophies | 729 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 150 | 0.4 | 0.4 | +579 | ||
Object to answering | 2,163 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 1,200 | 3.5 | 4.0 | +963 | ||
Not elsewhere included | - | - | - | 2,577 | 7.5 | 8.0 | -2,577 | ||
Total | 37,965 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 34,140 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +3,825 |
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.