This Topical Issue charts recent changes in personal and household income by combining the first release census data for 2011 with community profiles for Indigenous and other households from the 2001 and 2006 Censuses. Changes in household size and housing cost are also explored in order to appreciate some of the changing pressures on family resources.

Keywords: ABS census of population and housing data, household income, personal income, income gaps, Indigenous Australians, household size, housing cost, mining