Q. What percentage of Australian residents do you think are Muslim?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | |
1% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 8% |
2% | 11% | 10% | 14% | 9% |
3-5% | 26% | 26% | 25% | 37% |
6-10% | 20% | 19% | 22% | 18% |
More than 10% | 19% | 20% | 19% | 17% |
Don’t know | 18% | 20% | 13% | 11% |
17% think that Muslims make up 1-2% of Australia’s population, 26% think they make up 3-5% and 39% think it is over 5%. The actual figure is 1.7% – meaning 65% have over-estimated the number of Muslims in Australia.
There were only minor differences between age, gender and voter groups.