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Table 1 - Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Adult Population by Indigenous Region, 2006
Indigenous Non-Indigenous Indigenous Region
Queanbeyan Bourke Coffs Harbour Sydney Tamworth Wagga Wagga Dubbo
Melbourne Non-Met. Victoria
ERP (‘000)
5.8 5.3 26.7 30.1 9.8 10.8 6.0
10.5 10.6
Australian Share (%) 1.8 1.6 8.3 9.3 3.0 3.3 1.8
ERP (‘000)
257.6 30.0 1,114.0 3,411.0 154.9 357.4 63.8
3.2 3.3
3,039.3 1,091.8
3.6 0.4 1.5
1,175.9 26.1 60.9
Brisbane Cairns Mt Isa Cape York Rockhampton Roma Torres Strait Townsville
28.3 13.4 5.1 5.1 10.2 7.9 4.9 13.5
8.8 4.2 1.6 1.6 3.2 2.5 1.5 4.2
Perth Broome Kununurra Narrogin South Hedland Derby Kalgoorlie Geraldton
16.0 3.2 3.3 5.9 5.0 3.4 4.0 4.2
4.9 1.0 1.0 1.8 1.6 1.0 1.2 1.3
1,212.7 7.6 4.0 269.2 29.8 2.1 38.5 40.8
Alice Springs Jabiru Katherine Apatula Nhulunbuy Tennant Creek Darwin
3.7 6.8 6.3 7.1 6.6 2.7 8.4
1.2 2.1 1.9 2.2 2.1 0.8 2.6
17.1 2.4 6.9 2.3 4.5 1.9 82.5
322.8
100.0
Adelaide Ceduna Port Augusta
Tasmania
Australian Capital Territory Australia (total)
11.6 1.4 4.7
11.7
2.7
3.6
0.8
2,145.8 154.6 17.9 4.7 325.0 245.6 1.2 273.0
Australian Share (%) 1.6 0.18 6.8 20.9 0.9 2.2 0.4
2.2 15.1 2.3 0.9 5.9 2.9 8.5
13.1 0.9 0.1 0.0 2.0 1.5 0.0 1.7
1.3 8.0 22.4 52.0 3.1 3.1 80.2 4.7
7.4 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2
1.3 29.5 45.3 2.1 14.4 61.5 9.5 9.4
0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5
17.9 73.9 47.7 75.7 59.7 58.8 9.2
100.0
1.9
18.6 6.7
7.2 0.2 0.4
381.8
2.3
268.7
1.6
16,324.6
Indigenous Share of Region (%)
0.3 1.0
1.0 5.2 7.2
3.0
1.0
Note: ERP refers to the Estimated Resident Population, Australian share refers to the percentage of the total Indigenous or non-Indigenous population usually resident in that region and Indigenous share refers to the percentage of that Indigenous Region who identified as being Indigenous. Source: ABS (2008b)