The 2021 Australian census in 8 charts
- Written by Wes Mountain, Multimedia Editor

More than 25 million people Australians sat down on (or around) Tuesday August 20 last year to complete their census.
Despite our borders still largely being closed, that was an 8.6% increase in the number of people completing the census in 2021 compared to the last time we broke the internet to do it (in 2016).
And the population has...