Religion - Ranked by size
Central Ward (Lower Hutt City)
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion - Multi-response | Number | % | Lower Hutt City % | Number | % | Lower Hutt City % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| No religion | 7,281 | 42.2 | 46.4 | 5,415 | 35.5 | 40.6 | +1,866 | ||
| Buddhism | 291 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 279 | 1.8 | 1.5 | +12 | ||
| Christian | 6,960 | 40.3 | 38.2 | 7,980 | 52.3 | 49.1 | -1,020 | ||
| Hinduism | 1,119 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 909 | 6.0 | 3.3 | +210 | ||
| Islam | 315 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 180 | 1.2 | 0.8 | +135 | ||
| Judaism | 30 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 30 | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | ||
| Māori religions beliefs and philosophies | 81 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 87 | 0.6 | 1.3 | -6 | ||
| Spiritualism and new age religions | 48 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 42 | 0.3 | 0.5 | +6 | ||
| Other religions beliefs and philosophies | 255 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 63 | 0.4 | 0.4 | +192 | ||
| Object to answering | 909 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 486 | 3.2 | 4.0 | +423 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | - | - | - | 1,188 | 7.8 | 8.6 | -1,188 | ||
| Total | 17,265 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 15,270 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,995 |
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.