Context : Corona-Australis is one of the nearest regions to the Sun with recent and ongoing star formation , but the current picture of its stellar ( and substellar ) content is not complete yet . Aims : We take advantage of the second data release of the Gaia space mission to revisit the stellar census and search for additional members of the young stellar association in Corona-Australis . Methods : We applied a probabilistic method to infer membership probabilities based on a multidimensional astrometric and photometric data set over a field of 128 deg ^ { 2 } around the dark clouds of the region . Results : We identify 313 high-probability candidate members to the Corona-Australis association , 262 of which had never been reported as members before . Our sample of members covers the magnitude range between G \gtrsim 5 mag and G \lesssim 20 mag , and it reveals the existence of two kinematically and spatially distinct subgroups . There is a distributed ‘ off-cloud ’ population of stars located in the north of the dark clouds that is twice as numerous as the historically known ‘ on-cloud ’ population that is concentrated around the densest cores . By comparing the location of the stars in the HR-diagram with evolutionary models , we show that these two populations are younger than 10 Myr . Based on their infrared excess emission , we identify 28 Class II and 215 Class III stars among the sources with available infrared photometry , and we conclude that the frequency of Class II stars ( i.e . ‘ disc-bearing ’ stars ) in the on-cloud region is twice as large as compared to the off-cloud population . The distance derived for the Corona-Australis region based on this updated census is d = 149.4 ^ { +0.4 } _ { -0.4 } pc , which exceeds previous estimates by about 20 pc . Conclusions : In this paper we provide the most complete census of stars in Corona-Australis available to date that can be confirmed with Gaia data . Furthermore , we report on the discovery of an extended and more evolved population of young stars beyond the region of the dark clouds , which was extensively surveyed in the past .