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Italians are well represented in every Australian state, territory, town and region. At the 2021 census, states with the largest numbers of persons nominating Italian ancestry were Victoria (384,688), New South Wales (301,829), Queensland (152,571), Western Australia (137,255) and South Australia (103,914).
In the 2016 Census, there were 174,044 people in Australia who were born in Italy. Of these 51.1% were male and 48.9% were female. Of the population born in Italy who usually live in Australia, 1.0% were aged 0 - 14 years and 65.5% were aged 65 years and over.
Little Italy in Victoria, Australia (sometimes referred to as the "Italian Precinct" or simply "Lygon Street"), is a "Little Italy" cultural precinct of the Italian community of Melbourne. It is situated along Lygon Street in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton.
Almost a third of Italian-Australians live in Melbourne - this amounts to over 300,000 people - the largest Italian population in Oceania.
The state of New York has the largest population of Italian Americans, at 3.1 million people.
Many images are conjured up when the inner-west suburb of Leichhardt is mentioned. This suburb is famous for its Italian heritage, well known sporting grounds, Norton Street and the stylish restaurants and cafés dotted throughout the suburb.
New Italy (Italian: Nuova Italia) is a village near Woodburn in the Northern Rivers district in New South Wales, Australia.
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Most of the early settlers in Griffith were from the Veneto region. During the 1930s the number of Italians from Calabria, Sicily and other regions settled in growing numbers. Their farming success attracted a further wave of Italian migration to Griffith in the postwar period.
Tropical sugarcane towns like Ingham witnessed dramatic rises in the Italian population from the 1920s because of the immigration quotas applied by the United States. Ingham's earlier Italian pioneers, who had bought subdivided plantations or held leases, provided the foundation for a new generation of Italians.
The five states with the highest concentration of Americans with Italian Ancestry were Rhode Island (16.60%), Connecticut (16.32%), New Jersey (15.03%), Massachusetts (11.64%), and New York (11.53%).
Following Italy's involvement in world war I, many Italians particularly from the southern regions of Calabria and Sicily and descended into both, the south eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne. Following World War II, Australia saw a huge influx of Italian migrants settling all throughout Melbourne.
West End has long been recognised as having one of Brisbane's long-established Greek and Italian communities. However that was more than two generations ago - in the 1950s and 1960s – and many people with Greek and Italian heritage living in the suburb, are born in Australia and speak fluent English.
For the past 60 years, the Inner West, especially the suburb of Leichhardt has been the symbolic heart for Italian migration in Sydney.
“Leichhardt is known across Sydney, Australia and even the globe as Little Italy. “This is now officially recognised by law in NSW.” Byrne added that the new name will be “a permanent recognition of Leichhardt as the Italian heart of Sydney”.
Raglan Street in Mosman, in Sydney's north shore, is home to the highest number of million-dollar homes and is easily the most expensive street in Australia.
According to the PropTrack data, the most expensive suburb in the country is Bellevue Hill in Sydney's eastern suburbs, dominated by grand estates and heritage manors, with a house AVM of $8.42 million.
As of January 2021, over 880 thousand Italians lived in Argentina, the country with the largest number of Italian citizens. Two European countries followed in the ranking, Germany and Switzerland, while Brazil had the fourth largest Italian emigrated population.