8.7% ▲ +15.7%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tenterfield · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tenterfield
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A small increase in overseas arrivals has slightly shifted the makeup of Tenterfield since 2011. While the area remains overwhelmingly Australian-born, English and Australian ancestries continue to dominate the local identity.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 41.1%, followed closely by Australian at 37.0%. Other significant roots include Irish (14.6%), Scottish (12.1%) and German (7.3%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.7% of people were born overseas, a figure that is far below the New South Wales (29.3%) and national (27.7%) averages. This proportion rose 1.2 percentage points since 2011, with 80.7% of the population born in Australia.
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 Tenterfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17400/tenterfield/topic/ancestry-heritage