Demographics
According to the 2006 Australian Census, 310,089 persons resident in Australia claimed Dutch ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. 78,927 persons declared they were born in the Netherlands.
As the level of immigration from the Netherlands has dropped significantly from the 1980s (79% of Australian residents born in the Netherlands arrived before 1980 ), the Netherlands-born population is aging. 52% of the Dutch-born population was aged sixty years old or older at the time of the 2006 Census. As at the 2006 census 26,141 Dutch born Australians (33%) speak Dutch at home; many more Dutch-born Australians speak English at home (64%). Proficiency in English was self-described by census respondents as very well by 27%, well by 7%, <1% not well (66% didn't state or said not applicable).
Of the Australian residents who were born in the Netherlands, 59,502 or 75% were Australian citizens at the time of the 2006 census.
According to 2006 census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 61% of Dutch born Australians recorded their religion as Christian and 29% as "no religion".
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