Religion - Ranked by size
Wellington City
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion - Multi-response | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| No religion | 107,769 | 53.2 | 50.2 | 84,351 | 47.4 | 43.9 | +23,418 | ||
| Buddhism | 3,402 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 3,903 | 2.2 | 1.6 | -501 | ||
| Christian | 63,573 | 31.4 | 35.6 | 74,298 | 41.7 | 46.8 | -10,725 | ||
| Hinduism | 7,410 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 6,009 | 3.4 | 2.3 | +1,401 | ||
| Islam | 3,294 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2,580 | 1.4 | 0.9 | +714 | ||
| Judaism | 612 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 756 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -144 | ||
| Māori religions beliefs and philosophies | 714 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 798 | 0.4 | 0.9 | -84 | ||
| Spiritualism and new age religions | 933 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 945 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -12 | ||
| Other religions beliefs and philosophies | 4,482 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 855 | 0.5 | 0.4 | +3,627 | ||
| Object to answering | 10,956 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 6,219 | 3.5 | 4.0 | +4,737 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | - | - | - | 13,278 | 7.5 | 8.0 | -13,278 | ||
| Total | 202,737 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 177,993 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +24,744 |
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.