Editing South Australia (section)

==Demographics==
{{See also|Demographics of Australia|List of places in South Australia by population}}
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|+Country of Birth (2016)<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{Cite web|url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/4?opendocument|title=2016 Census Community Profiles: South Australia|website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au|access-date=19 November 2020|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200330/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/4?opendocument|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{Cite web |title=South Australia (4) 984274.9 sq Kms |url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~4/$File/GCP_4.zip?OpenElement |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424014440/http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/CensusOutput/copsub2016.NSF/All%20docs%20by%20catNo/2016~Community%20Profile~4/$File/GCP_4.zip?OpenElement |archive-date=2018-04-24 |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=www.censusdata.abs.gov.au}}</ref>
! Birthplace{{refn|group="N"|In accordance with the Australian Bureau of Statistics source, England, Scotland, China and the Special Administrative Regions of [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]] are listed separately}} !! Population
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| Australia || 1,192,546
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| England || 97,392 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| India || 27,594
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| China || 24,610 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| Italy || 18,544
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| Vietnam || 14,337
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| New Zealand || 12,937
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| Philippines || 12,465
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| Scotland || 11,993 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| Germany || 10,119
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| Greece || 8,682
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| Malaysia || 7,749
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| South Africa || 6,610
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| Afghanistan || 6,313
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[[File:Adelaide skyline, December 2022.jpg|left|thumb|[[Adelaide]] is the largest metropolitan area in the state]]
[[File:ABS-3101.0-AustralianDemographicStatistics-EstimatedResidentPopulationStatesTerritories-EstimatedResidentPopulation-Persons-SouthAustralia-A2060846R.svg|thumb|The estimated resident population since 1981]]
As at December 2021 the population of South Australia was 1,806,599.<ref name=ABSPop/>
A majority of the state's population lives within [[Greater Adelaide]]'s metropolitan area which had an estimated population of 
1,333,927 in June 2017.<ref name=ABSCapitalPop>{{cite web|title=3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2016–17: Main Features|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3218.0Main+Features12016-17|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=24 April 2018|access-date=13 October 2018}} Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017.</ref> Other significant population centres include [[Mount Gambier]] (29,505),<ref name=ABSSUA>{{cite web|title=3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2016–17: Population Estimates by Significant Urban Area, 2007 to 2017|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3218.02016-17|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=24 April 2018|access-date=12 October 2018}} Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017.</ref> [[Victor Harbor, South Australia|Victor Harbor]]-[[Goolwa, South Australia|Goolwa]] (26,334),<ref name=ABSSUA/> [[Whyalla]] (21,976),<ref name=ABSSUA/> [[Murray Bridge, South Australia|Murray Bridge]] (18,452),<ref name=ABSSUA/> [[Port Lincoln]] (16,281),<ref name=ABSSUA/> [[Port Pirie]] (14,267),<ref name=ABSSUA/> and [[Port Augusta]] (13,957).<ref name=ABSSUA/>

===Ancestry and immigration===
At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{refn|group="N"|As a percentage of 1,227,355 persons who nominated their ancestry at the 2016 census.}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/4GADE?opendocument|title=2016 Census Community Profiles: Greater Adelaide|website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au|access-date=19 November 2020|archive-date=22 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622062053/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/4GADE%3Fopendocument|url-status=dead}}</ref> <!-- Only ancestries with >1% are listed. Do not use the QuickStats data from ABS for ancestries. Use the full ancestry data series (eg from ABS Community Profiles series) as the QuickStats data shows each ancestry as a percentage of all ancestry responses (where each person can list up to two, thus a far greater number than the total population) while the full data series in the ABS Community Profiles show the percentage of people nominating a given ancestry as a percentage of the population who nominated an ancestry -->
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* [[English Australians|English]] (40.5%)
* [[Australians|Australian]] (35.5%){{refn|group="N"|The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the [[Anglo-Celtic Australian|Anglo-Celtic]] group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182!OpenDocument|title=Feature Article – Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article)|first=c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of|last=Statistics|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=January 1995}}</ref>}}
* [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (8.9%)
* [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (8.5%)
* [[German Australians|German]] (8.2%)
* [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (6.1%)
* [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (3.3%)
* [[Greek Australian|Greek]] (2.4%)
* [[Indian Australians|Indian]] (2.1%)
* [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (2%){{refn|group="N"|name=censusquirk|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}
* [[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (1.7%)
* [[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese]] (1.3%)
* [[Polish Australians|Polish]] (1.2%)
* [[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (1%)
}}

28.9% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from [[England]] (5.8%), India (1.6%), China (1.5%), Italy (1.1%) and [[Vietnam]] (0.9%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

2% of the population, or 34,184 people, identified as [[Indigenous Australians]] ([[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islanders]]) in 2016.{{refn|group="N"|name=censusquirk}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

===Language===
At the 2016 census, 78.2% of the population spoke only [[Australian English|English]] at home. The other languages most commonly spoken at home were [[Italian language|Italian]] (1.7%), [[Standard Mandarin]] (1.7%), [[Greek language|Greek]] (1.4%), [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] (1.1%), and [[Cantonese]] (0.6%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

=== Religion ===
At the [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]], overall 53.9% of responses identified some variant of [[Christianity]]. 9% of respondents chose not to state a religion. The most commonly nominated responses were [[Irreligion|'No Religion']] (35.4%), [[Roman Catholic|Catholicism]] (18%), [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglicanism]] (10%) and [[Uniting Church in Australia|Uniting Church]] (7.1%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

South Australia was the first Australian colony not to have an official state religion,<ref name="religion beginnings">{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1452|title=Religion : Beginnings|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=23 May 2006 }}</ref> and the colony became attractive to people who had experienced religious discrimination, including [[Methodism|Methodists]] and [[Unitarianism|Unitarians]]. South Australia also had thousands of [[Prussia]]n [[Old Lutherans|Old Lutheran]] immigrants, some of whom established their own form of Lutheranism. As a result, the [[Lutheran Church of Australia]] remains separate from the German Lutheran church to this day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1455|title=Religion : Diversity|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=7 December 2005 }}</ref> South Australia was the location of the first Muslim mosque in Australia.<ref name="religion beginnings"/>

Most of the state's original colonists were Christian, but of many denominations, most with their own meeting place in the city square. Adelaide has been known as the "City of Churches" since at least 1868.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158931161 |title=The Week's News |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |volume=XXVI |issue=1389 |location=South Australia |date=16 May 1868 |access-date=12 April 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} Earlier instances may be found without capital "C"s.</ref> Some of the oldest remaining buildings in the city are churches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1454|title=Religion : City of churches|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=7 December 2005 }}</ref>