Spanish Australians

Spanish Australians
Total population
	(92,952 (by ancestry, 2011))
Regions with significant populations
	Primarily capital cities
Languages
	Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
Religion
	Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
	Spaniards, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans, Basques, other Europeans and Latin Americans

File:Australian Census 2011 demographic map - Inner Sydney by POA - BCP field 1204 Spanish Total Responses.svg

People with Spanish ancestry as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Spanish Australians (Spanish: Hispano-australianos) are Australians with ancestry from Spain. There are approximately 58,271 Australians of Spanish full or partial descent, most of whom reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain.

Immigration to Australia from Spain was minimal during the 1850s and 1860s resulting from the social disruption of the Carlist civil wars. Larger numbers of Spanish immigrants entered the country in the first quarter of the twentieth century due to the same circumstances of rural poverty and urban congestion that led other Europeans to emigrate in that period, as well as unpopular wars. Many immigrants moved either back to Spain or to another country.