Who Goes to Church

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	Who Goes to Church In a changing social landscape, what is the place of the churches? Research over time shows how many people go and how this has changed - church size and growth. Church attenders are people who go to church. A profile of attender demographics shows their age, gender, education and more. Understanding attender beliefs and practices helps explain what motivates them to attend church. Church attender levels of involvement as well as personality are also explored. Fast Facts Most Australians (71%) have attended at least one religious service or rites-of-passage event in the past 12 months (ACS) 19% of Australians are frequent church attenders (at least once per month) (Well-being 2003 Largest denomination - Catholic Church, with 50% of all attenders (NCLS 2001) Average congregational size - 60-70 people (NCLS 2001)	Quick Search Research Home All NCLS Features Taxes versus government spending: attender attitudes 13006 In late 2011, a sample of Christian church attenders was asked: 'If the government had a choice between reducing personal income taxes or increasing social spending on services like health and education which do you think it should do? ' Australian Church Attenders on Overseas Mission Trips, NCLS Fact Sheet 14029 This NCLS Fact Sheet examines Australian churches' reporting on the numbers of people who have gone on short, medium, and long term overseas mission trips.

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