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Editor's note
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The great Australian dream of owning your own home is alive and well according to Census figures. But what these figures mask is the decline in outright home ownership, involving no mortgage debt.
The data shows 7.2% of purchasers are paying more than 30% of their income on their home loan, but this is likely to be higher among the lowest income households, where such costs place them in housing poverty.
However if you’re yet to get into the housing market at all, the Census tells us in 2016 Hobart was the cheapest city to buy in but Darwin was the most expensive.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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Slow but steady decline in home ownership continues as 23.6% of all Australian households now rent privately.
David Gray/Reuters
Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology; Kath Hulse, Swinburne University of Technology; Margaret Reynolds, Swinburne University of Technology; Terry Burke, Swinburne University of Technology
The latest 2016 Census data assesses what the national home ownership and rental rates are and how these vary location. It also gives us a picture of mortgage and rental costs.
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Census 2016
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The 2016 Census showed major changes in the ranking order of religious groups in Australia.
AAP/Tracey Nearmy
Gary D Bouma, Monash University
The changing pattern of the diversity of religious identities is one indicator of a society’s degree of multicultural composition. On this measure, Australia is among the most diverse.
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Much of the change in partnering in Australia has been in response to changing legal and social norms.
AAP/Alan Porritt
Edith Gray, Australian National University; Ann Evans, Australian National University
There has been a decrease in the proportion of Australians who are married, and an increase in co-habitation of both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
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The ABS estimates that as of December 2016, the Australian population was around 24.4 million.
AAP/Alan Porritt
Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in terms of language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion.
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From the archives
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Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne
The latest Census shows Australians spend between five and 14 hours a week on unpaid domestic work, but it's women who suffer the most from this.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University; Maxine Montaigne, London School of Economics and Political Science
Census data have a real impact on the lives of Australians, from determining political representation through the distribution of electorates, to the allocation of government funding.
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Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University
Today’s release of data from the 2016 Census allows us to identify some of Australians' more common characteristics, how they vary across states and territories, and how they are changing over time.
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Liz Allen, Australian National University
The Australian Census has been taken since 1911. But is it still necessary in today's world of mass digital data collection?
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