Results from the 2016 National Church Life Survey
Resource Type: Article
Topics: News Jan 2018 churchgoers 2016 NCLS demographics immigrant multicultural
Of the 36 % of church attenders in 2016 who were born overseas, 27% were born in a non-English speaking country (up from 18% in 2006). Some 9% of attenders were born in another country where English is the main language.
The large majority of churchgoers (64%) were born in Australia.
Compared to the wider Australian population the percentage of churchgoers born in a non-English speaking country (27%) is higher than the national population (22%) in 2016.
Publication date: March 2018
Powell, R., Pepper, M., Hancock, N. and Sterland, S. (2017) 2016 NCLS Attender Survey [Data file]. Sydney: NCLS Research. 2016 Census of Population and Housing, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
A steady increase in the proportion of church attenders born were overseas in the past decade.