Young people in New South Wales

A brief overview based on the 1996 census statistics available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

1996 census statistics show that one third of Australia's young people, more than 1.2 million people aged 12 to 25 years, lived in NSW.

• There were more young people living in Sydney (772,187) than in the whole of Queensland (695,850)
• There were more young people living in regional and rural NSW (363,810) than in the whole of Western Australia (362,900)
• There were more young people living in Western Sydney (301,715) than in the whole of South Australia (277,300)
• There were more young people living in the Hunter region of NSW (105,646) than in the whole of Tasmania (92,500).

15.8% of NSW young people (190,193) were born overseas. The largest groups were born in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Phillipines, Lebanon and Korea.

There are more young Aboriginal people in NSW than in any other state or territory.

Young people make up 20% of the NSW population.

Follow this link for statistics on NSW young people - Australian Bureau of Statistics (opens in a new browser window)

Follow this link for information on Australia's young people based on the 2001 Census data (opens in a new browser window)

Follow this link to NSW Youth website (opens in a new browser window)

For further information

Contact	:	Australlian Bureau of Statistics
Phone	:	1300 135 070
Email	:	client.services@abs.gov.au

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