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Religion in Pendle Hill (2006 Census Continued)

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Matt Stone

2007-06-29

Philip Johnson has kindly forwarded on the 2006 census results for Pendle Hill, the Sydney suburb I find myself situated in. I have drawn it up into a table as follows:

Anglican	1,521
Baptist	178
Catholic	3,083
East Orthodox	285
Pentecostal	109
Presbyterian	247
Uniting	323
Total Christian	6,266

Buddhist	230
Hindu	1067
Islam	409
No religion	948
No answer	870
Total population:	9, 965

Christian: 2896 male, 3370 female
Hindu: 551 male, 516 female

You may remember have I mentioned I am involved with the local Baptist church? Have a quick glance at the numbers of Baptists in Pendle Hill in comparison to Hindus. Maybe this might help you understand the emphasis I place on dialogue with other religions! Unfortunately I don’t have figures for the number of Pagans yet or people who fall into the spiritual but not religious category. Neither do I have current figures on how many of the Anglicans and Catholics here actually attend. But this does present an interesting snapshot does it not?

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6 responses to “Religion in Pendle Hill (2006 Census Continued)”

philjohnson

2007-06-29

The list does not include all church groups by the way.
For Other Religious Groups in your suburb the figure is 124.
For Other Religious Affiliations (which can include Religion not further defined, theism, New Age)the figure is 43.
If you inspect the census table for your post code region 2145 the figures for Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists goes up considerably higher.

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Black Knight

2007-06-30

I put ‘Christian’ and refused to specify further. I wonder how that affects the stats?

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Matt Stone

2007-06-30

Our family did the same to be honest Black Knight. “Christian” without further definition is something I want to explore further.

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philjohnson

2007-06-30

Folks who put “Christian” were classified under “Other Christian” which includes “not further defined” (meaning no denomination or no specific extra information).

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philjohnson

2007-06-30

For details pertaining to your area where the suburbs share the identical postcode I have added this post:
http://circleofpneuma.blogspot.com/2007/06/matt-stone-has-tabulated-religion.html

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Matt Stone

2007-07-01

Thanks Phil

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