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Muslim & Arab Australians in Queensland
1. Muslim Australians
- Total number of
Muslims in Australia: 281,578 - Total number of
Muslims in Queensland: 14,990 - Proportion of
the Australian population who are Muslim: 1.5% - Proportion of
the Queensland population who are Muslim: 0.4%
*Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2001
Census.
Figure 1:
Australian Muslim population by state and territory
Source:
ABS, 2001 Census. Basic Community Snapshots and Profiles.
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Table 1: Geographic
Distribution of Muslims in Australia, 2001
State/territory
|
Proportion
of all Australian Muslims |
Proportion
of total state or territory population |
New South Wales |
50% | 2.2% |
Victoria | 33% | 2.0% |
Western Australia |
7% | 1.1% |
Queensland | 5% |
0.4% |
South Australia |
3% | 0.5% |
Australian Capital Territory |
1% | 1.1% |
Northern Territory |
0.3% | 0.5% |
Tasmania | 0.3% | 0.2% |
Total |
100% |
1.5% |
Source:
ABS, 2001 Census.
Table 2: Distribution
of Australian Muslims by major statistical local areas in Brisbane statistical
division, 2001
Statistical local area |
Number |
Runcorn | 388 |
Eight Mile Plains | 347 |
Woodridge | 312 |
Kuraby | 276 |
St Lucia | 231 |
Holland Park | 226 |
Sunnybank Hills | 220 |
Mount Gravatt East |
209 |
Greenslopes | 207 |
Coorparoo | 203 |
Annerley | 200 |
Ipswich (C) - East |
188 |
Kingston | 176 |
Calamvale | 167 |
Browns Plains | 167 |
Doolandella-Forest Lake |
165 |
Capalaba | 160 |
Acacia Ridge | 149 |
Mansfield | 144 |
Stretton-Karawatha | 139 |
West End | 134 |
Wishart | 134 |
Marsden | 133 |
Upper Mount Gravatt |
118 |
Slacks Creek | 115 |
Alexandra Hills | 113 |
Carindale | 112 |
Rochedale South | 99 |
Toowong | 98 |
Moorooka | 96 |
Woolloongabba | 93 |
Ipswich (C) - Central |
92 |
Algester | 91 |
Loganholme | 90 |
Indooroopilly | 89 |
Seventeen Mile Rocks |
89 |
Taringa | 89 |
Inala | 88 |
Underwood | 88 |
Loganlea | 85 |
Sunnybank | 84 |
Robertson | 82 |
Other SLAs | 3,977 |
Total Brisbane SD |
10,463 |
2. Arab &
Middle-Eastern Australians
- Total number of
Australians born in the Middle East or North Africa in Australia: 213,940
(1.1% of the national population) - Total number Australians
born in the Middle East or North Africa in Queensland: 8,115
(0.2% of the QLD state population)
*Source: Australian
Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2001 Census.
Definitions
Defining who is an
‘Arab’ or exactly which countries lie within the Middle East
is a complex matter.
The Australian Bureau
of Statistics (ABS) defines the Middle East as: Bahrain,
Gaza Strip and West Bank (Palestine), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait,
Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
Yemen. North Africa is defined as: Algeria, Egypt, Libya,
Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia and the Western Sahara. ‘Arab’
includes: Algerian, Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Lebanese, Libyan,
Moroccan, Palestinian, Saudi Arabian, Syrian, Tunisian.
This summary uses
ABS definitions and highlights specific countries of origin for a significant
number of Australians. These countries are: Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq,
Iran, Syria and Israel. Other Middle Eastern, North African and Arab countries
with much smaller representation in Australian are grouped into two categories:
- ‘Other Middle
East’ (which includes Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen) - ‘Other North
Africa’ (which includes Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia,
Mauritania, Djibouti and Western Sahara)
Table 3: Main countries of
birth of Australians of Middle Eastern & North African origin, 2001
Country
of birth |
Number
|
Lebanon | 71 349 |
Egypt | 33 432 |
Turkey | 29 821 |
Iraq | 24 832 |
Iran | 18 789 |
Syria | 6 710 |
Israel | 6 574 |
Other Middle East |
13 212 |
Other North Africa |
8 918 |
Other not further defined |
303 |
Total |
213
|
Source: ABS, 2001
Census, Unpublished data.
Figure 2:
State & territory distribution of Australians born in the Middle East
& North Africa, 2001
Source: ABS, 2001
Census. Basic Community Profiles and Snapshots.
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Table 4: Australians born
in the Middle East or North Africa in major statistical local areas of
Brisbane, 2001
Statistical
Local Area |
Egypt
|
Iran
|
Iraq
|
Lebanon
|
Syria
|
Turkey
|
Other
Middle East |
Other
North Africa |
Total
|
Woodridge |
15
|
0
|
48
|
55
|
6
|
3
|
7
|
27
|
161
|
Annerley |
7
|
10
|
13
|
9
|
0
|
5
|
10
|
39
|
93
|
Sunnybank Hills |
25
|
13
|
4
|
11
|
4
|
6
|
13
|
10
|
86
|
Greenslopes |
3
|
10
|
51
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
5
|
8
|
84
|
Kuraby |
4
|
3
|
23
|
10
|
3
|
0
|
17
|
21
|
81
|
Mansfield |
11
|
14
|
0
|
23
|
6
|
8
|
10
|
6
|
78
|
West End |
22
|
6
|
4
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
11
|
18
|
76
|
Capalaba |
16
|
7
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
40
|
0
|
3
|
72
|
Wishart |
14
|
13
|
0
|
16
|
4
|
10
|
9
|
3
|
69
|
Coorparoo |
17
|
7
|
5
|
13
|
0
|
5
|
4
|
15
|
66
|
Highgate Hill |
16
|
7
|
12
|
7
|
0
|
9
|
6
|
7
|
64
|
Carindale |
10
|
9
|
4
|
22
|
4
|
4
|
7
|
3
|
63
|
Holland Park |
6
|
9
|
7
|
10
|
3
|
3
|
13
|
12
|
63
|
Rochedale South |
25
|
3
|
0
|
17
|
0
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
56
|
Mount Gravatt East |
12
|
0
|
7
|
11
|
4
|
0
|
12
|
9
|
55
|
Doolandella-Forest Lake |
0
|
36
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
5
|
7
|
0
|
54
|
Ipswich (C) - Central |
6
|
13
|
4
|
3
|
0
|
15
|
3
|
9
|
53
|
Yeronga |
0
|
12
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
27
|
52
|
Calamvale |
26
|
9
|
0
|
7
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
4
|
51
|
Runcorn |
11
|
3
|
10
|
9
|
3
|
7
|
8
|
0
|
51
|
Slacks Creek |
14
|
0
|
0
|
17
|
0
|
9
|
10
|
0
|
50
|
Seventeen Mile Rocks |
5
|
16
|
3
|
12
|
3
|
0
|
6
|
3
|
48
|
Alexandra Hills |
4
|
9
|
0
|
11
|
4
|
17
|
3
|
0
|
48
|
Browns Plains |
6
|
8
|
0
|
7
|
10
|
5
|
6
|
4
|
46
|
Ipswich (C) - East |
7
|
4
|
7
|
6
|
0
|
13
|
3
|
5
|
45
|
Robertson |
7
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
7
|
18
|
6
|
44
|
Albany Creek |
6
|
3
|
5
|
8
|
0
|
3
|
5
|
14
|
44
|
Moorooka |
3
|
3
|
8
|
3
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
22
|
43
|
Aspley |
4
|
5
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
4
|
8
|
16
|
42
|
Middle Park |
5
|
3
|
9
|
9
|
8
|
5
|
3
|
0
|
42
|
Chapel Hill |
7
|
20
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
7
|
4
|
0
|
41
|
Stretton-Karawatha |
4
|
8
|
0
|
12
|
4
|
7
|
6
|
0
|
41
|
Indooroopilly |
3
|
22
|
4
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
0
|
40
|
Kangaroo Point |
5
|
15
|
3
|
5
|
0
|
6
|
3
|
3
|
40
|
Toowong |
4
|
7
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
17
|
3
|
40
|
Other SLAs |
438
|
469
|
207
|
470
|
79
|
221
|
276
|
295
|
2455
|
Total for Brisbane SD |
768
|
779
|
454
|
816
|
150
|
453
|
521
|
596
|
4537
|
*Source:
ABS, 2001 Census, Unpublished data
Race Discrimination
Unit, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, July 2003. ABS data
used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.