6.4% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Carpentaria · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Carpentaria
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Fewer people born overseas have called Carpentaria home since 2011, with that figure falling to 6.4%. This reflects a population where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported are Australian at 33.9% and English at 22%, followed by Irish, Scottish and German.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.4% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has fallen slightly from 7.3% in 2011, with 81.1% 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 Carpentaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32250/carpentaria/topic/ancestry-heritage