Demographics of Brisbane
Brisbane () is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that the population of Greater Brisbane is 2,462,637 as of June 2018, and the South East Queensland region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.6 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of  the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs), most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite. Brisbane will be the host of the 2032 Olympics Country of Birth. The 2016 census showed that 32.2% of Brisbane's inhabitants were born overseas. 50.9% of inhabitants had at least one parent born overseas. Of inhabitants born outside of Australia, the four most prevalent countries of birth were New Zealand, England, Mainland  China, and India. Brisbane has the largest New Zealand and Taiwanese-born populations of any city in Australia. Languages. At the 2016 census, 78% of inhabitants spoke only English at home, with the next most common languages being Mandarin (2.4%), Vietnamese (1.0%), Cantonese (0.9%), Spanish (0.7%), Hindi (0.6%), Samoan (0.6%), Korean (0.6%) and Punjabi (0.6%). Ancestry. At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: Religion. At the 2016 census, the most commonly cited religious affiliations was 'No religion' (30.6%). Brisbane's most popular religion at the 2016 census was Christianity, and the most popular denominations were Catholicism (21.5 %) and Anglicanism (13.3%). Other Christian denominations including Uniting Church, Baptists, Pentecostalism, Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodox made up 18.8% of the population. All Christian denominations totalled 53.6% of the population. Brisbane's CBD is home to two cathedrals — St John's (Anglican) and St Stephen's (Catholic). The most popular non-Christian religions at the 2016 census were Buddhist (2%), Muslim (1.5%) and Hindu (1.5%).