Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Legend:

• Large red dot: 500 people or more
• Medium red dot: 200 to 499
• Small red dot: 50 to 199
• Smaller back dot: less than 50 people

•   Very remote
•   Remote
•   Outer regional
•   Inner regional
•   Major city

Indigenous communities by usual population (left) and by remoteness area (right) based on ABS data for 2006^[1]

Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are communities for Aboriginal Australians within their ancestral country; the communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of Australia.

The governments of Australia and Western Australia have supported and funded these communities in a number of ways for over 40 years; prior to that Indigenous people were non citizens with no rights, forced to work for sustenance on stations as European settlers divided up the areas, or relocated under various Government acts.