More on Hindus from Census 2017

Numbers saw 60% jump since 2011, Census figures reveal

Apart from India’s Independence Day, 15 August this year marked Krishna Janmashtami, the annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna. It one of the most important days of observance on the Hindu calendar. There certainly were a greater number of

Hindus celebrating Krishna Janmashtami this year, with the 2016 Census of Population and Housing showing that Hinduism was the fastest growing religious group in Australia between 2011 and 2016.

Last year, the Census counted 440,300 Australians reporting Hinduism as their religion - 1.9 per cent of the population. This represents a whopping 60% increase since the 2011 Census, when the Hindu population was 275,535.

Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, is also home to the most Hindus, with 180,000 people out of the state’s population of just under 7.5 million reporting Hinduism as their religion. However, in terms of percentage of the population, the Australian Capital Territory had the highest figure with 2.6 per cent of the ACT’s nearly 400,000 residents reporting as Hindu.

New South Wales and Victoria housed the five Australian suburbs with the largest number of Hindus - Parramatta (NSW), Westmead

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