Community Information Summaries
The Community Information Summaries will be updated early 2013 once the relevant data from the 2011 Census is available. Please contact the Australian Bureau of Statistics directly if you require updated statistics.
See: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Statistics from 2006 Census
The Community Information Summaries describes the communities in Australia by country of birth. These summaries present a broad range of demographic and socio-economic characteristics from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. Most have a brief historical background on the community. The summaries are available for the first 100 countries of birth and are in the following formats:
- Community Information Summaries: HTML
Text only, no graphs. - Community Information Summary: PDF
Formatted with graphs, in printer-friendly form.
Data items
- Historical Background
- Geographic Distribution
- Age and Sex Distributions
- Ancestry
- Language
- Religion
- Year of Arrival
- Citizenship
- Median Income
- Educational Qualifications
- Employment Characteristics
Explanatory notes
Notes on the data used for the Community Information Summaries.
See: Community Information Summaries: Explanatory notes
Bibliography of publication sources
A number of publications were used as input to the Community Information Summaries.
See: Community Information Summaries: Bibliography
