English Australians
English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2021 census, 8,385,928 people, or 33% of the Australian population, stated that they had English ancestry (whether sole or partial). It is the largest self-identified ancestry in Australia. People of ethnic English origin have been the largest group to migrate to Australia since the establishment of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788.
Statue of English-born Arthur Phillip, first colonial Governor of New South Wales | |
| Total population | |
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| 8,385,928 (by ancestry, 2021) (33% of the Australian population) 927,490 (by birth, 2021) | |
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| All states and territories of Australia | |
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| English | |
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| Anglo-Celtic Australians, Scottish Australians, Irish Australians, Welsh Australians, Cornish Australians |
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English Australians are a subset of Anglo-Celtic Australians, who are themselves a subset of European Australians. Other subsets of Anglo-Celtic Australians (that is, Australians with ancestry originating in the British Isles) include Irish Australians, Scottish Australians and Welsh Australians. There is a tendency to refer to these ancestries collectively due to their long history in Australia and the high degree of intermixture which has occurred over centuries. In light of this history, there is a tendency for Australians with English or other Anglo-Celtic ancestries to simply identify their ancestry as 'Australian'.