More than 50 per cent of respondents to last year’s national population snapshot are first- or second-generation Australians.
shows for the first time more than 50 per cent of residents were born overseas or have an immigrant parent.as India moved past China and New Zealand to become one of the top three countries of birth for Australian residents, behind England.Chris Lane
The top five reported ancestries in Australia were English , Australian , Irish , Scottish and Chinese , theAbout 5.5 million Australians – more than one in five – speak a language other than English at home, up by 800,000 since 2016. Among the total, about 850,000 reported not speaking English well or at all.
More than 1 million single-parent families were recorded for the first time last year, while about 2.5 million families have children under the age of 15.The 2021 census asked about diagnosed long-term health conditions for the first time. More than 8 million people have been shown to have such conditions, including more than 2 million with mental health conditions, asthma and arthritis.
Australia’s Indigenous population is growing older, with more than 47,000 respondents aged 65 or older, more than double the 2011 figure.More than 1 million residents arrived in Australia between 2017 and 2021, with four out of every five settling before the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of international borders.
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