People born in China: occupation, income, and rent beside them
Occupation and income are used only where the source says place of birth is China. Australia is the 2021 Census and excludes Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Rent is for renters in general, in its own table, and is not subtracted from income. This is not the overseas-Chinese, student, or visitor counts, and it is not “where Chinese people generally go.” Income published for a Chinese ethnic group is not filled in as birthplace income for the United States or Canada.
ECB reference rates for 2026-10-23: 1 USD = 6.6702 yuan, 1 CAD = 4.766, 1 AUD = 4.6841. Yuan is rounded to the nearest yuan. This is not a bank cash rate.
Australia: occupation of people born in China
2021 Census. People born in China, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, who were employed and aged 15 or over. The job is the one held in the week before Census night. These eight rows are the categories the ABS printed. They are shares of employed people, not of all people born in China, and they do not add to 100 because responses outside this list are omitted. The ABS also changes small cells at random for privacy. This is not the Labour Force Survey.
| Occupation | Employed people | Share of employed people |
|---|---|---|
| Professionals | 88,911 | 31.6% |
| Managers | 39,369 | 14.0% |
| Clerical and administrative workers | 31,782 | 11.3% |
| Technicians and trades workers | 27,745 | 9.9% |
| Community and personal service workers | 25,418 | 9.0% |
| Labourers | 25,033 | 8.9% |
| Sales workers | 24,290 | 8.6% |
| Machinery operators and drivers | 10,621 | 3.8% |
ABS QuickStats, born in China excluding SARs and Taiwan, 2021
Australia: income, same census, different people
Income is usual total income for a week, collected in ranges. The median inside each range comes from the Survey of Income and Housing. It is before tax. See the INCP definition. The three rows use three populations. None of them is median earnings of one occupation, and none is subtracted from rent.
| Item | Who is included | Amount | Yuan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median personal income, weekly | People aged 15 and over who stated an income. Before tax. Includes pensions, benefits, business and rent profit or loss, not wages alone. Not limited to employed people, and not an hourly wage. | AUD 601 | 2,815 |
| Median family income, weekly | A family is included if any member was born in China, excluding SARs and Taiwan. This is not personal income and is not added to the personal row. | AUD 1,715 | 8,033 |
| Median household income, weekly | Counted at the place of enumeration if any household member was born in China, excluding SARs and Taiwan. This is not personal income. | AUD 1,641 | 7,687 |
Rent, listed beside the income tables
These are rents or shelter costs for renters in general. They are not the rent paid by people born in China. The year, the dwelling, and what is included differ from the income rows above. This page does not subtract them from income.
| Country | What was measured | Amount | Yuan | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2021 Census. Median weekly rent for rented private dwellings in Australia. Rent-free dwellings are excluded. All renters, not people born in China. | AUD 375 a week | 1,757 | ABS, All persons QuickStats |
| Canada | 2021 Census. Median monthly shelter cost for rented dwellings. Includes rent plus electricity, heat, water, and other municipal services paid separately. Not contract rent alone, and not households born in China. | CAD 1,070 a month | 5,100 | Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile |
| United States | 2020–2024 ACS 5-year estimate. Median gross rent for renter-occupied units paying cash rent. The table’s margin of error is ±2 dollars. Gross rent adds estimated utilities and fuels paid by the renter. Not households born in China. Yuan converts the 1,413 point estimate only. | USD 1,413 a month | 9,425 | U.S. Census Bureau, B25064 |
U.S. QuickFacts also prints USD 1,413
United States and Canada
A birthplace occupation table and a birthplace income median are not filled in for these two countries. The U.S. selected-population profile S0201 can be iterated by place of birth, but the public table view checked on 27 October 2026 did not return a China iteration that could be copied, and a third-party tabulation that folds in Hong Kong and Macau is not used. Statistics Canada’s published occupation and income figures for “Chinese” people use the population-group question. In the 2021 Census, 47.8% of that group, 819,840 people, were born in China, so the group is not “born in China.” Those income figures are not copied onto this page.
U.S. Census S0201 · Statistics Canada, portrait of the Chinese populations, 2021 Census