8.4% ▲ +59.1%
Lower than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tamworth Regional · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tamworth Regional
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Tamworth Regional, where 43.6% of people claim this background. This heritage is the most frequent across the area, followed closely by English ancestry at 39.7%. Together, these two groups make up the vast majority of the local population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestries are also common, with English ancestry alone accounting for nearly 40% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.4% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has risen 3.1 percentage points since 2011, and the most common birthplaces outside Australia are England, the Philippines, and India.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Tamworth Regional [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17310/tamworth-regional/topic/ancestry-heritage