The results of the latest national Census reveal who we are, where we live, what we do, how we work and how we lead our lives.
The 2016 Census counted 23.4 million people living in Australia, an increase of 8.8% since the 2011 Census.
The majority of Australians continue to live in the eastern mainland . Almost 80% lived in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory in 2016.
One of the most significant outcomes of Census 2016 is the amount of people born overseas has gone up by almost 1 million people in the last five years.
While England and New Zealand remained the most common countries of birth after Australia, the proportion of people born in China and India has increased since 2011.
Today, people born in India are 1.9% of the Australian population.
Census 2016 also reveals that Hinduism has grown and almost 440,300 people in Australia or 1.9% of people in Australia identify themselves as Hindu.
Hindi came out as top Indian language spoken at home in Australia.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
While English remained the main language spoken, Census data showed that more than one-fifth (21%) of Australians spoke a language other than English at home. Mandarin remained the next most commonly spoken language (2.5% of the total population), but there have been increases in the proportion of the population speaking Hindi (from 0.5% to 0.7%) and Punjabi (from 0.3% to 0.6%).
Here are the state-wise figures of Hindi-speakers:
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
NSW - 67,034
VICTORIA - 51,241
QUEENSLAND - 18,163
SOUTH AUSTRALIA - 7,310
WESTERN AUSTRALIA - 10,747
TASMANIA - 639
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT) - 3,646
NORTHERN TERRITORY - 852
SBS National Languages Competition is back
The SBS National Languages Competition 2018 starts on Monday 15 October. And for the first time, the competition is open to all Australians of all ages who are learning a language, including those learning English!
