NZ by religion
The top 10 religions in NZ from the census are:
- Catholic 491,421 (11.6%)
- Anglican 459,771 (10.8%)
- Presbyterian 316,329 (7.5%)
- Christian 217,177 (5.1%)
- Methodist 97,320 (2.3%)
- Hindu 89,082 (2.1%)
- Buddhist 58,212 (1.4%)
- Baptist 53,496 (1.3%)
- Muslim 45,963 (1.1%)
- Pentecostal 45,777 (1.1%)
The mainstream Christian denominations represent around 40% of New Zealanders. Of those who have no stated religion they expressed it as:
- No religion 1,635,348 (38.6%)
- Not stated 301,608 (7.1%)
- Object to answering 173,034 (4.1%)