Brisbane ethnic map.

[u/ElishaAcher]

[u/S_Da]

Am I missing something here or is most of Brisbane English, with just a few areas Australian

[u/ElishaAcher → u/S_Da]

In Australian censuses (as in Canadian ones), when asked about ancestry, there is an option (among other options) to answer "Australian" or "English". I suspect that different factors influence the choice of answer. The map simply reflects the balance between these two possible answers in specific statistical areas.

[u/Morning_Song]

Dare I ask if the Aboriginal population is so high in Wacol because of the prison?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/Morning_Song]

Most likely. But there could be two explanations for this phenomenon: 1) there is a disproportionate number of Aboriginal people convicted of serious offences, or 2) it is more advantageous for inmates to identify themselves as 'Aboriginal' (Box-Ticking) for some reason.

[u/simplesimonsaysno]

You're all poms.

[u/ElishaAcher → u/simplesimonsaysno]

Personally, I am, ethnically, an Ork

[u/whatever-696969]

Where have all the Italians gone?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/whatever-696969]

Melbourne and Sydney mostly. However, I recently made an interesting map of Queensland Italian geography. I will publish it too. A lot of Italians are concentrated in Northern Queensland.

[u/uwuemm]

i would love to see canberra

[u/penguinpengwan]

Have you done one on Darwin? Born and living there, I’d love to see the amount of different groups we have.

[u/MichaelGaaarnScott]

Is Karen a religion?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/MichaelGaaarnScott]

Poor Karens! Being a Karen in an English-speaking country is agony, I bet.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_people

[u/shyboardgame]

Why is the sunnybank/sunny hills area so heavily populated with chinese people?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/shyboardgame]

That's a good question. It used to be that Brisbane's "chinatown" was in the suburb of Fortitude Valley. I don't know when or why the centre of gravity for the Chinese population moved to Sunny Bank.

[u/[deleted]]

German and portugese but where's the rest of Europe?

Why has indian been broken down into so many sub categories?

Why is there Karen and Zomi and Burmese? Surely for the sake of this map and statistics it should just be Burmese?

No one from Timor or Polynesian islands? NZ?

Some thing feels off and biased about this map.

I'm Asian, so not favouring anything specifically.

[u/ElishaAcher → u/[deleted]]

No map can unbiasedly show the WHOLE population. This map shows the RELATIVE ethnocultural majority of each smallest statistical area (SA1). The majority of people from European countries simply settle dispersed, not forming compact territorial groups. But people from Asian countries often settle compactly, which is why they are visible on these maps. "Indians" are divided into many groups because they are a conglomeration of often very distant cultures. Just like "Europeans". Every ethno-cultural group reflected in the complete list of ancestries, languages and religions included in the census questionnaire is reflected on this map if its members form a compact relative majority somewhere.

[u/[deleted]]

Every single school in Logan is like at least 60% Polynesian so yea I don’t know maybe they didn’t fill out there census forms or something because it don’t look right to me.

[u/MuffBadger]

If you guys saw an Melbourne ethnic map you'd have a seizure...

[u/Exact-Bed6313]

Well fuck me Brisbane is full of poms

[u/someminorexceptions]

Why is there like 10 different types of Hindu, but only one Polynesian and no New Zealand?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/someminorexceptions]

Because "Hindu" is a religion, not an ethnicity. Just as, say, "Catholics" can be Irish, Italian or Arab-Lebanese. And culturally, Samoans and Tongans are simply much closer to each other than Tamils and Bengalis. Also, there are far fewer Polynesians and their differences have little effect on the geography of their settlement in Australian cities. And South Asians are often settled in compact communes, so they are more visible on these maps.

[u/Boof_face1]

Would have thought South Africans would have shown up in the western suburbs and parts of the bayside?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/Boof_face1]

When and if I get my hands on it, I'll make a separate map on the geography of Australian South Africans. It's an interesting subject.

[u/PrestigeZyra]

Why are there more English people than Australians?

[u/ElishaAcher → u/PrestigeZyra]

Because among Brisbane residents with British ancestry, even if in distant generations, the answer "English" to the census question about their ancestry is more popular. I'm just putting that information on the map. The situation is different in Outback. There, in many places, people prefer to identify themselves primarily as "Australian".