Spanish Australians

Spanish Australians
*Hispano-australianos*
Total population
92,952 (by ancestry, 2011)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Primarily capital cities
Languages
Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans, Basques, other Europeans and Latin Americans

People with Spanish ancestry as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census

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Regional groups
Andalusian Aragonese Asturian Balearic Basque Canarian Cantabrian Castilian Leonese madrileños manchegos Catalan Ceutan Extremaduran Galician Melillan Murcian Navarrese Valencian Other groups Mercheros Romani (gitanos) Sephardic Migrants, expats and refugees
Diaspora
Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Chile Cuba France Germany Mexico Philippines Puerto Rico Switzerland UK USA Uruguay Venezuela, etc.
Languages
Spanish aka (Castilian) Basque Catalan Galician Occitan Other languages Aragonese Asturian Fala Portuguese Iberian Romani Caló Erromintxela Quinqui Arabic Romanian English French Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) Rif Berber, etc.
Religion
Roman Catholicism Judaism Islam
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Spanish Australians refers to Australian citizens and residents of Spanish descent, or people who were born in Spain and emigrated to Australia. There are approximately 58,271 Australians who are full or partial Spanish descent, most of whom reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain.

Immigration to Australia from Spain was minimal during the 1850s and 1860s resulting from the social disruption of the Carlist civil wars. Larger numbers of Spanish immigrants entered the country in the first quarter of the twentieth century due to the same circumstances of rural poverty and urban congestion that led other Europeans to emigrate in that period, as well as unpopular wars. Many immigrants either moved back to Spain or to another country.