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

Religion - Ranked by size

Lower Hutt City

2018 2013
Religion - Multi-response Number % Wellington Region % Number % Wellington Region % 2013 - 2018
No religion 48,495 46.4 50.2 36,789 40.6 43.9 +11,706
Buddhism 1,230 1.2 1.2 1,329 1.5 1.6 -99
Christian 39,942 38.2 35.6 44,460 49.1 46.8 -4,518
Hinduism 4,005 3.8 2.6 2,949 3.3 2.3 +1,056
Islam 1,083 1.0 1.1 741 0.8 0.9 +342
Judaism 120 0.1 0.2 171 0.2 0.3 -51
Māori religions beliefs and philosophies 1,167 1.1 0.7 1,194 1.3 0.9 -27
Spiritualism and new age religions 456 0.4 0.5 471 0.5 0.5 -15
Other religions beliefs and philosophies 1,737 1.7 1.8 381 0.4 0.4 +1,356
Object to answering 6,549 6.3 6.3 3,630 4.0 4.0 +2,919
Not elsewhere included - - - 7,827 8.6 8.0 -7,827
Total 104,532 100.0 100.0 90,558 100.0 100.0 +13,974

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.