Asian Australian

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Asian Australians
Total population
1,696,568 6.7% of Australian population^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Capital cities Predominately Sydney and Melbourne
Languages
English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Korean,Indonesian, Japanese, Tagalog
Religions
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto, Sikhism , others

An Asian Australian can be generally defined as a person of Asian continental ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to Australia. Defined by the 2006-2011 Australian Census, Asian Australians include "Central and Southern Asians", South-East Asians and North-East Asians. Russians and Middle Eastern people are not considered to be Asians in the 2006-2011 Australian Census. Russians are classified with "Southern and Eastern Europeans" while Middle Eastern people are classified with "North African and Middle Easterns". ^[2]

"Asian Australian", like other categorical definitions of ethnicity in Australia (Southern European-Australians, Indigenous Australians) cannot be defined simply as a similar group of people sharing a fixed cultural background. For example, Indian Australians, Filipino-Australians, and Chinese Australians are very different from each other in both culture and, often, physical appearance.

East Asia

Central and South Asia

Southeast Asia

Asian Australian Ancestries as defined by the 2006 census

Additionally, although the term "Asian" in Australia is most popularly used as a term to group peoples with physical characteristics resembling East Asian people, Southeast Asians (including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia) and (to a lesser extent) South Asia, Central Asians are also included in the Asian Australian grouping for cultural studies and academic works, as well as for official government and the 2006-2011 Australian Census.

At the 2006 Census 1,696,568 Australian residents declared that they had ancestral background to Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia or East Asia, either alone or in combination with one other ancestry. This represents about 8.1% of all responses. More than two-thirds of Asian Australians live in the two largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne.^{[citation needed]}

1 Demographics
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 History

[edit] Demographics

**Metropolitan Areas with High Proportion of Australians of Asian ancestry (2006 Census)^[3]**
Metropolitan Area	Asian population(Est)	Asian people as % of total population
Sydney, NSW	695,484	16.88
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)^[4]

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)^[5]

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