We are taking the pulse of Australian churches with a Church Pulse Check which tracks simple estimates of attendance and faith commitments. What has happened since COVID-19?
In late 2025 a sample of Australian churches will take just a few minutes to provide estimates for their church.
Note: this local church information will not be made public.
What information will each church provide?
1. Name and location of your church
2. What has been the average weekly attendance at your church over the past few years? We just want your best estimates.
3. How many, if any, Christian faith commitments* were there during 2025? Again, an estimate is all we need.
*By 'faith commitments' we mean baptisms, confirmations or other sacraments/rites of passage or moments of public commitment.
Who is invited?
Australian churches across more than 20 Christian denominations and movements, as well as independent churches, have partnered with us over the past 35 years to complete research into church health and vitality. This national research snapshot provides valuable data for church leaders, researchers and many others who resource and support church health around the country.
In 2025 a randomly selected group of churches from across the whole country has been invited to take part in the 2025 Church Pulse Check. Their responses will form a 2025 national sample of churches.
Confidential
- Not to sell the contact details for your churches to a third party
- Not to publish estimates of attendance or estimates of faith commitments for
- local churches (e.g. congregations, parishes, campuses, clusters)
- denominational church regions (e.g. presbyteries, dioceses or state-level associations).
See the free 2021-2024 Church Pulse Check report
This report covers the period since COVID-19 and includes church attendance estimates and faith commitments (baptisms, confirmations, public professions of faith). Like previous NCLS Research reports it contains estimates across the nation, for each state, for denominational types (e.g. Mainstream Protestant, Pentecostal etc) and for individual denominations - where possible.
