But never content to be too average, Canberra’s average person is the second youngest of all the states and territories, and the only average person to be working a desk job.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released their profiles of the average Australians as part of their Social Trends series on Wednesday.

According to the data, a compilation of 2011 census statistics, the average Australian is a 37-year-old woman who works as a sales assistant and was born in Australia.

“She speaks only English at home and belongs to a Christian religion, most likely Catholic,” the report said.

“She is married, and lives with her husband and two children (a boy and a girl aged nine and six) in a separate house with three bedrooms and two cars in a suburb of one of Australia's capital cities. They have lived in that house for at least five years, and have a mortgage where they pay $1800 a month.

“She has a Certificate in Business and Management, and drives to her job as a sales assistant, where she works 32 hours a week. She also does unpaid work around the house for five or more hours a week.”

Despite the statistical averages, the ABS also said that no single Australian actually met all the criteria to be classified as truly average on census night, which reflects a growing diversity across the nation.

The profile of the average Australian has changed markedly over the past 100 years. In 1911, the average Aussie was a 24-year-old Anglican male farmer - 50 years later, in 1961, he was a 29-year-old clerk.

On a state-by-state breakdown, the average Canberran is the second-youngest at 34, behind the average Northern Territorian who is a 31-year-old male.

The ACT is also one of just three states where the average job is not as a sales assistant. The average Northern Territorian is in the defence forces, and the average Western Australian is a 36-year-old male truck driver.

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