Spanish Australian

Spanish Australian
Hispano-australiano
Total population
92,952 (by ancestry, 2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups

Spanish, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans, Basques, other Europeans · Latin Americans

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People with Spanish ancestry as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census
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Spanish Australians (Spanish: Hispano-australianos) are Australians with ancestry from the European country of Spain. There are approximately 58,271 Australians of Spanish full or partial descent, most of which reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain.

Immigration to Australia from Spain was minimal during the 1850s and 1860s resulting from the social disruption of the Carlist civil wars. Larger numbers of Spanish immigrants entered the country in the first quarter of the twentieth century due to the same circumstances of rural poverty and urban congestion that led other Europeans to emigrate in that period, as well as unpopular wars. Many immigrants moved either back to Spain or to another country.

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References

  1. ↑ "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Australian Government.