Filipino Australians are Australians of Filipino ancestry. Filipino-Australians are the fifth-largest subgroup of the Overseas Filipinos. According to the 2006 census, there are over 160,374 Filipino Australians. In Sydney, people born in the Philippines comprise 5.9% of the population in the City of Blacktown and it is the largest directly born ethnic group in Blacktown.

Currently Filipinos are the third largest Asian Australian immigrant group behind Vietnamese Australians and Chinese Australians, Females accounted for 65.5% of the Philippine community while males represented 34.5% of the Filipino Australian population. According to census data, 50.2 per cent of the Philippines-born were resident in New South Wales, followed by 21.6% in Victoria, 14.9% in Queensland and 5.2% in Western Australia.

In 2000, Australia recorded about 127,000 Filipinos and/or Filipino Australians Philippine Embassy in Canberra, Australia 1 Moonah Place, Yarralumla ACT 2600; P.O. Box 3297; Manuka, ACT 2603 Australia Tel: (+61)2 6273-2535/6 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: 09.00-12.00 and 13.00-17.00 source: embassy pages.com