The Latest Breaking News from Census

Australia looks very different from five years ago: There are as many millennials as baby boomers, there are more than one million single-parent families and there has been an "unexpected" move to high-rise living. Here's what the latest census data tells us.

The census counted 812,728 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on census night, making up 3.2% of the total people counted. That’s up from 649,171 in the 2016 census, an increase of over 25%.

The first round of 2021 census key data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is finally here — remember filling it out in August in lockdown? — and it has revealed Australia is growing, changing and is more diverse than ever before.The official population in August 2021 was 25.4…

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In the early years after European settlement, it wasn’t called a ‘Census’, it was called a ‘muster’ – when settlers gathered together to be counted.

For the first time, census data shows fewer than half of Australians say they are Christian, while almost as many say they have no religious beliefs.

About a third of all borrowers will see their student loan debt eliminated entirely under the proposal.

The Preliminary Results provide insight into the growth of each county, showing just how the country is developing.

It is the first time since before The Famine that the country's population has risen to over 5 million

Data from the CSO shows that Ireland’s population has hit its highest point since 1841, four years before the Great Famine.

Manager Rosemary Jackson decided to do the project following the national Census, which asked questions on people’s use and understanding of Scots