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The ‘average Canberran’ revealed

THE average Canberra citizen is a 34 old woman who works as a general clerk, according to the latest census data. 

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released profiles of average Australians from each state as part of their Social Trends series today.

According to the data, Canberra’s average person is the second youngest of all the states and territories, and the only average person to be working a desk job.

Meanwhile, the average Australian is a 37-year-old woman who works as a sales assistant and was born in Australia.

“They would be a married woman, living with her husband and two children in a three bedroom house in a suburb of one of Australia’s capital cities,” the report said.

“They have lived in that house for at least five years, and have a mortgage where they pay $1800 a month.

“The average Australia was also born in Australia, as were both of her parents.”

The report also used Census data to look at how the average has changed over time.

Fifty years ago, the average Australian was a 29 year old man, and 100 years ago the average Australian was a 24 year old man.

Despite large increases in recent years in the number of people with no religion or with a non-Christian religion, Catholicism remains Australia’s largest religion.

 

 

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