‘A Picture of the Nation’ Housing overview

(Non-private dwellings included accommodation such as hotels, motels, nursing homes, hospitals and staff quarters.) The majority of private dwellings were occupied on Census Night (90%). At the time of  the 2006 Census, most people in Australia were counted in private dwellings (19.2 million people), which included 23,600 people in improvised dwellings (for example, tents, humpies [...]