Each five-yearly Census collects a vast amount of vital information about our nation.
It provides the statistical information to assist the informed decision making process for all aspects of society, including all levels of government, from the national right down to local government and to the community.
There is a wealth of information available for free from the Census home. For each Census there are now a range of products and services to assist you in accessing the information you need. Historical census information can be found on the ABS website.
Some limited historical Census data is available for free online (see links below). It includes previous publications which have been scanned:
1911 - 1991 Historical Censuses Information
Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive - a searchable archive of Australian colonial census publications containing colonial census reports, not the raw census data.
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SUBJECT |
TITLE | YEARS | FORMAT |
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| Census | The Paracensus of Australia 1788-1828 (interim)/ [edited by] James Hugh Donohoe. | 1788-1828 | paper |
| Musters | Musters and lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802 / edited by Carol J. Baxter. | 1800-1802 | paper |
| Musters | Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806 / edited by Carol J. Baxter. | 1805-1806 | paper |
| Musters | General muster and land and stock muster of New South Wales 1822 / edited by Carol J. Baxter. | 1822 | paper |
| Musters | General muster list of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825 / edited by Carol J. Baxter. | 1823, 1824, 1835 | paper |
| Census | Census of New South Wales, November 1828 / edited by Malcolm R. Sainty & Keith A. Johnson. [Personal names] | November 1828 | paper |
| Census | 1901 census of the Northern Territory of Australia [microform] / compiled by members of the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory from original records held at the Australian Archives Darwin. . [Personal names] | 1901 | microform |
| Musters | Land musters, stock returns and lists, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822 / edited by Irene Schaffer. | 1803-1822 | paper |
| Census | A colony detailed: the first census of Western Australia, 1832 / edited and annotated by Ian Berryman. [Personal names] | 1832 | paper |
| Census | Census, 1837, Western Australia: extracted from volume 58 of inward correspondence of the Colonial Secretary's Office of Western Australia, by staff of the Battye Library. [Personal names] |