Where we live
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population at the last Australian census made up approximately 2.5% of the overall population. Of the 517,174 Indigenous Australians identified through the 2006 census nearly 300,000 are under 24 years of age.
The majority of Indigenous people today live in Australian cities with the highest proportion of Indigenous Australians living in Sydney. In 2006, 31% of Indigenous people in Australia lived in major cities; 22% lived in inner regional Australia; 23% in outer regional Australia; 8% in remote Australia and 16% in very remote Australia.
The largest individual Aboriginal community population is the Anangu Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra peoples who live in the area around Uluru, the north west corner of South Australia and also cross into Western Australia.
Australian Bureau of Statistics - Population distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (2006)
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'Real Indigenous people live in the bush'
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