Asian Australians

Asian Australians

Regions with significant populations
Capital cities Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
Languages
commonly Australian English, Asian languages
Religion
Buddhism, Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam, East Asian religions, other Indian religions, and others

Template:RegionsofAsia-Central.png An Asian Australian can be generally defined as a person of Asian ancestry who was born in (ABC - Australian Born Chinese), or is an immigrant to (Colloquially referred to as a Banana), Australia.

There is no agreed definition of who an Asian Australian is, although for the purposes of aggregating data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG) has grouped certain ethnic groups into certain categories, including Northeast Asian e.g Chinese Australian, Southeast Asian e.g Vietnamese Australian, South Asian e.g. Indian Australian and Central Asian e.g Afghan Australian. For the purpose of this article an Asian Australian is considered to be an Australian resident falling into one of these four groups.

At the 2006 Census 1,696,568 Australian residents declared that they had ancestral background to one of these three groupings, either alone or in combination with one other ancestry. This represents about 8.7% of all responses.

Demographics

Metropolitan Areas with High Proportion of Australians of Asian ancestry (2006 Census)

Metropolitan Area	Asian population(Est)	Asian people as % of total population
Sydney, NSW	683,917	18.8
Melbourne, VIC	565,056	16.18
Perth, WA	136,848	9.47
Brisbane, QLD	130,598	7.41
Adelaide, SA	68,640	6.21
Canberra, ACT	30,113	9.32
Darwin, NT	10,551	9.96

Asian Australians by Sydney region (2006 census)

Region	Asian population	Asian people as % of total population
Fairfield-Liverpool	97,765	28.38
Inner Western Sydney	87,251	28.07
Central Western Sydney	84,491	27.88
Canterbury-Bankstown	68,784	22.89
Lower Northern Sydney	62,395	21.61
Central Northern Sydney	80,355	19.51
Inner Sydney	51,191	16.35
St George-Sutherland	60,010	14.16
North Western Sydney	73,806	12.76
Eastern Suburbs	27,274	11.82
Outer South Western Sydney	21,008	9.01
Northern Beaches	14,458	6.42

Asian Australians by Melbourne region (2006 census)

Region	Asian population	Asian people as % of total population
Box Hill	105,361	40.04
Melbourne Central	90,541	31.32
Fitzroy - North Fitzroy	71,440	28.92
Footscray	50,314	20.03
Burwood	26,395	18.67
Camberwell	20,035	15.25
Inner Melbourne	43,111	14.33
Springvale	22,991	14.17
Western Suburbs	72,842	9.32
Eastern Suburbs	64,485	8.98

See also

• Asian American
• Asian Canadian
• Asian Brazilian
• British Asian
• Asian people

External links

• Centre for Asian Societies and Histories