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June 21st, 2012 
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The 2011 census results show the impact of the resources boom, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
Australia’s population is now above 21 million, with a great cultural mix than ever before.
Source: The Advertiser
THE Census has revealed plenty about the flow-on effects of the mining boom, Australia’s cultural shift, population growth and blown-out rental prices.
The worst blow-out is in WA, where the mining boom has seen rent soar by 76.9 per cent since the last Census.
For those who don’t remember, Census data of the past has revealed some quirky statistics.
Australia’s population was 21,507,717 on the 2011 Census night last August, an 8.3 per cent increase from the 2006 census.
Females just outnumbered males – 10,873,704 to 10,634,013 – and the median age was 37.
In total 21,727,158 people were counted in Australia on census night, including 219,440 overseas visitors.
And the most alarming stat is this: more than 10 per cent of households have to surrender above 30 per cent of their income to their landlord, and roughly the same proportion of home buyers need that slice of income to pay mortgages.
But we are better placed to cover the stiffer accommodation charges with the proportion of households earning more than $3000 a week jumping from 5.5 per cent to 11.2 per cent.
But we have not been put off our love affair with the car. Nearly three million households have two cars, with the proportion of all households needing double garages rising from 35.5 per cent to 36.1 per cent.
The figures confirmed we have had to scrounge up more just to keep a roof over our heads, and that the cost increases have outpaced inflation over the five years.
In 2006, median national weekly rent was $190. That jumped by 50 per cent to $285, the 2011 census recorded.
But the take from household incomes appeared to be static.
In 2006, 90.7 per cent of households had rent payments less that 30 per cent of their income. That fell slightly to 89.6 per cent in 2011.
The proportion of households with rents costing more than 30 per cent of incomes rose slightly from 9.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent.
Median national monthly mortgage payments were $1300 in 2006 but this rose by 38.5 per cent to $1800 in 2011.
In an indication of mortgage strain, 8.4 per cent of home buyers had to allocate more than 30 per cent of household income to paying the mortgage account, and that rose marginally to 9.9 per cent in 2011.
The proportion of households who own their homes outright fell from 34 per cent in 2006 to 32.1 per cent in 2011 and the proportion of renters rose from 28.1 per cent to 29.6 per cent. Households with a mortgage rose stayed the same at 34.9 per cent in 2011 compared to 34.1 per cent.
‘Cultural shift’
In terms of Australia’s cultural makeup, there have been huge increases in those coming from India, China and the Philippines, and a decline in post-war countries such as Italy.
“This is fundamentally shifting the cultural mix of Australia,” the 2011 census executive director Andrew Henderson said.
About one in four Australians were born overseas and 43.1 per cent of people had at least one overseas-born parent.
While the majority of Australia’s migration came from Europe, Mr Henderson said there were increasingly more people born in Asia and other parts of the world now calling Australia home.
The leading birthplace for those who arrived since 2006 was India (13.1 per cent), closely followed by the United Kingdom (12.1 per cent).
The census showed more Australians are identifying themselves as having no religious affiliation, with that number rising to 22.3 per cent from 18.7 per cent of the population in 2006.
Christianity remained the most commonly reported religion in Australia with 61.1 per cent of the population, down slightly from 63.9 per cent in 2006.
The 2011 census counted same-sex married couples for the first time, rather than the previous classification as a de facto partner.
Yet the vast majority of same-sex couples – 96 per cent – still described their relationship as de facto.
There were 1338 same-sex couples who identified themselves as married, compared to 32,377 same-sex de facto couples.
– with AAP
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