CENSUS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1881.—SUMMARY TABLES., No. 36., RELIGION.—Return showing, in the Urban and Rural parts of the Colony, the percentage of Population of different Religious Persuasions, at the Census of 1881.

Persuasions.	Sydney and Suburbs.			Towns and Villages of 100 Inhabitants and over.			Total Urban.			Total Rural.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
All Religious Persuasions	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Protestants—
Church of England	46.80	46.86	46.72	44.99	44.90	45.10	45.91	45.86	45.97	45.03	44.98	45.11
Lutherans	0.50	0.75	0.25	0.67	0.88	0.43	0.58	0.82	0.33	0.70	0.88	0.43
Presbyterians	7.89	8.14	7.64	10.41	10.39	10.42	9.12	9.29	8.94	10.40	10.40	10.42
Wesleyan Methodists	6.58	6.31	6.86	8.08	7.43	8.84	7.32	6.88	7.79	8.03	7.43	8.84
Other Methodists	0.79	0.81	0.76	1.09	1.04	1.16	0.94	0.93	0.94	1.03	0.93	1.16
Congregationalists	4.19	4.02	4.38	0.96	0.89	1.03	2.61	2.43	2.81	0.95	0.90	1.03
Baptists	1.30	1.27	1.34	0.84	0.82	0.87	1.08	1.03	1.12	0.83	0.81	0.87
Unitarians	0.23	0.30	0.16	0.06	0.09	0.03	0.14	0.19	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.03
Other Protestants	1.67	1.77	1.57	1.17	1.28	1.04	1.43	1.52	1.32	1.18	1.28	1.04
Total Protestants	69.95	70.23	69.68	68.27	67.72	68.92	69.13	68.95	69.32	68.21	67.69	68.93
Catholics—
Roman Catholics	25.58	23.98	27.19	28.50	27.30	29.93	27.01	25.67	28.48	28.41	27.30	29.93
Catholics undescribed	0.13	0.12	0.15	0.06	0.06	0.04	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.05	0.6	0.03
Total Catholics	25.71	24.10	27.34	28.56	27.36	29.97	27.10	25.76	28.58	28.46	27.36	29.96
Hebrews	1.13	1.21	1.03	0.15	0.17	0.12	0.65	0.68	0.60	0.15	0.18	0.12
Other Persuasions	0.27	0.30	0.23	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.17	0.19	0.15	0.07	0.08	0.05
Unspecified Persuasions	2.48	3.27	1.69	1.45	1.90	0.93	1.98	2.57	1.33	1.49	1.90	0.93
Pagans	0.46	0.89	0.03	1.50	2.77	0.01	0.97	1.85	0.02	1.62	2.79	0.01