Talk:Australian Americans

Criteria

What exactly are the criteria for being listed as Australian American - I'm thinking of the actors in particular. There are plenty of Australian born people working on American film and TV. Is U.S. citizenship the determining factor? - Matthew238 (talk) 04:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Who is perpetrating this nonsense? What are Australians living in Honduras called? Aren't they 'Australian Americans' too? Who co-opted the entire western hemisphere for the US?

While the criteria are not exactly clear, I propose to use a table to assist with WP:Verifiability and to allow the reader to decide. Format of the table is

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! name !! Born - Died!!Notable for!!Connection with Australia!!Connection with America
|-
| [[Jacques Nasser]]||1947- ||former CEO of [[Ford Motors]]|| born Lebanon but raised in Australia ||lived in US as CEO of major US company
|-
|[[Rupert Murdoch]]||1931- ||CEO of [[News Corporation]]||born Australia||in 1985 Murdoch became a naturalized citizen of the United States
|}

ie:

name	Born - Died	Notable for	Connection with Australia	Connection with America
Jacques Nasser	1947-	former CEO of Ford Motors	born Lebanon but raised in Australia	lived in US as CEO of major US company
Rupert Murdoch	1931-	CEO of News Corporation	born Australia	in 1985 Murdoch became a naturalized citizen of the United States

I would expect all references to be in the person's article. There is no reference for Nasser's citizenship but there is enough information in the table for the reader to decide whether or not he is an American Australian on the facts in the article. Murdoch is more clear.--Matilda ^talk 23:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC).

I agree that citizenship of both countries should be the criteria. If that's the case we'd need to include Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, Luke Mitchell and dozens upon dozens of other Australian soap stars gone to LA to try their luck.--TBBC (talk) 00:27, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Removing images

There are only four images of famous Australian Americans. It look messy and incomplete. I suggestion to either remove all images or at least add some more. I mean come on there should be some more notable Australian-Americans. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 22:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Population section update — June 2026

Disclosure: I'm Josh Pugh, founder of America Josh, a community resource for Australians in the United States. Flagging a potential conflict of interest under WP:COI before suggesting edits. The Population section currently has two issues:

The 2000 U.S. Census reference (stp159-australia.pdf) returns 404 — the Census Bureau restructured their site and converted STP-159 country files from PDF to Excel format. The proposed replacement citation points to the live Census Bureau landing page that lists all STP-159 country profiles. The Advance / "Global Australians" reference for the Los Angeles figure is also dead. The lead data is from the 2000 Census (24 years out of date) and could be supplemented with 2024 American Community Survey figures.

I'd like to propose an update that fixes the dead Census reference URL, adds current data from the 2024 ACS, and marks the Advance reference as a dead link for future cleanup. The proposed update cites only primary government sources (U.S. Census Bureau tables B05006 and S0201). It does not link to my own website or to any analysis I've published. The text is factual demographic information only. Posting the proposed text below for review. Happy for another editor to apply or modify, or to do it myself if there are no objections. Joshpughamericajosh (talk) 16:20, 1 June 2026 (UTC)Joshpughamericajosh (talk) 16:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Population

At the 2000 U.S. Census, 60,965 Australian-born people were enumerated in the United States, of which 15,315 were citizens. Around 40% of Australian Americans had entered the United States before 1980. By 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated the Australian-born population in the United States at 112,037 (one-year estimate, ±7,058), up from 97,250 in 2023 and 71,535 in 2010 — an increase of 57% over fourteen years. The more conservative five-year average estimate was 102,482 (±2,985). Of Australian-born U.S. residents, approximately 40% (39,432) are naturalized U.S. citizens, and 60% (57,818) are not U.S. citizens — a category that includes both lawful permanent residents and those on temporary visas. About half of Australian-born U.S. residents arrived in 2010 or later. By state, the largest Australian-born populations are in California (approximately 24% of the total), New York (12%), Texas (7%), Florida (7%), and Washington (4%). The E-3 visa, available only to Australian citizens, is the primary employer-sponsored nonimmigrant work visa used by Australians moving to the United States. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and is growing in Nolita, Manhattan, New York City. In 2016, the Australian Consulate-General estimated there were 44,000 Australians living in Los Angeles.

Additional issues noticed while reviewing the article

Following up on my Population section update above — while reviewing the article I noticed several other issues. Flagging here rather than acting on them, since some are outside the scope of my proposed edit.

• The infobox pop field still leads with the 60,965 figure from the 2000 Census. If the Population section is updated to the 2024 ACS figure (112,037), the infobox should match for internal consistency. I'd propose updating this as part of the same edit, since it's the same factual claim from the same source.

• The lead paragraph cites the same dead Advance / Global Australians link for the "44,000 Australians in Los Angeles" claim as the Population section does. Both instances of that citation need the same treatment ({{dead link}} flag, or replacement with an archived version if one can be found on the Wayback Machine).

• The popplace infobox field reads "West Coast (especially California near the San Francisco and Sacramento area), Midwest, New England, Florida, Hawaii and Texas," cited to a 2017 book (Ueda). Per current ACS data, New York holds the second-largest concentration of Australian-born US residents (around 12% of the total) and is conspicuously absent from this list. Worth a review.

• The "highest Median Household Income" citation in the lead paragraph points to a generic search URL on data.census.gov (?t=515) rather than a specific table. Wikipedia's verifiability policy generally prefers stable, table-specific URLs — this could be pointed at table S0201 or B19013 with the population group filter set to "Australia."

• The two everyculture.com citations in the History section (supporting the Sydney Ducks claim and the "86,400 Australians and New Zealanders, 1971–1990" figure) are from a wiki-style aggregator. Better academic sources exist for both — Asbury's The Barbary Coast (1933) is the standard for Sydney Ducks, and INS / USCIS published immigration tables broken out by country of birth would be the primary source for the 1971–1990 figure. The current citation also conflates Australians with New Zealanders, which isn't ideal for an article specifically about Australian Americans.

Flagging these for other editors to consider rather than proposing fixes myself, since they fall outside the Population section update I disclosed above. ~2026-32754-98 (talk) 18:38, 1 June 2026 (UTC)