Editing Canberra (section)

===Ancestry and immigration===
[[File:Canberra Candle Festival 2016 (203914161).jpeg|left|thumb|The annual Canberra Nara Candle Festival]]
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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/8ACTE?opendocument |title=2016 Census Community Profiles: Australian Capital Territory |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2 October 2021 |archive-date=13 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813031658/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/communityprofile/8ACTE?opendocument |url-status=live}}</ref>
! Birthplace{{refn|group="N"|In accordance with the Australian Bureau of Statistics source, [[England]], [[Scotland]], [[Mainland China]] and the Special Administrative Regions of [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]] are listed separately}} !! Population
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| [[Australia]] ||269,682
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| [[England]] ||12,739 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| [[Mainland China]] ||11,334 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| [[India]] ||10,405
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| [[New Zealand]] ||4,722
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| [[Philippines]] ||3,789
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| [[Vietnam]] ||3,340
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| [[United States]] ||2,775
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| [[Sri Lanka]] ||2,774
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| [[Malaysia]] ||2,431
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| [[South Korea]] ||2,283
|}

At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{refn|group="N"|As a percentage of 373,561 persons who nominated their ancestry at the 2016 census.}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/> <!-- 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]] (35%)
*[[Australians|Australian]] (34%){{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=www.abs.gov.au |date=January 1995 |access-date=16 June 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420205113/http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182%21OpenDocument |url-status=live}}</ref>}}
*[[Irish Australians|Irish]] (14%)
*[[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (11%)
*[[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (6%)
*[[German Australians|German]] (4.7%)
*[[Indian Australians|Indian]] (3.9%)
*[[Italian Australians|Italian]] (3.5%)
*[[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (1.7%)
*[[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (1.6%){{refn|group="N"|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.}}
*[[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (1.3%)
*[[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese]] (1.3%)
*[[Greek Australians|Greek]] (1.3%)
*[[Croatian Australians|Croatian]] (1.2%)
*[[Polish Australians|Polish]] (1.1%)
}}

The 2016 census showed that 32% of Canberra's inhabitants were [[Immigration to Australia|born overseas]].<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/> Of inhabitants born outside Australia, the most prevalent countries of birth were England, China, India, New Zealand and the Philippines.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/8ACTE?opendocument |title=2016 Census QuickStats: Australian Capital Territory |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2 October 2021 |archive-date=19 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119012713/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/8ACTE?opendocument |url-status=live}}</ref>

1.6% of the population, or 6,476 people, identified as [[Indigenous Australians]] ([[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islanders]]) in 2016.{{refn|group="N"|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.}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>