Every five years, the national Census of Population and Housing provides data on the demographic, social and economic characteristics of Australia's Indigenous population. In this paper a number of socioeconomic characteristics from the 2001 Census are analysed by State for Torres Strait Islanders, other Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people...This paper concludes that the socioeconomic status of Islanders with respect to non-Indigenous people may have improved slightly since the 1996 Census