PROTESTANTS, ROMAN CATHOLICS, AND JEWS IN EACH AUSTRALASIAN COLONY, 1881.
Colony. Numbers. Proportions per cent.
Protestants. Roman Catholics. Jews. Total. Protestants. Roman Catholics. Jews.
Victoria 618,392 203,480 4,330 826,202 74.84 24.64 0.52
New South Wales 516,512 207,606 3,266 727,384 71.01 28.54 0.45
Queensland 139,380 54,376 457 194,213 71.77 28.00 0.23
South Australia 216,626 42,628 762 260,016 83.31 16.40 0.29
Western Australia* 20,613 8,413 29,026 71.02 28.98
Total 1,511,523 516,503 8,815 2,036,841 74.21 25.36 0.43
New Zealand 393,971 68,984 1,536 464,491 84.82 14.85 0.33
Grand Total 1,905,494 585,487 10,351 2,501,332 76.18 23.41 0.41