10.2% ▲ +15.1%
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Latrobe · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Latrobe
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Latrobe, making up 46.2% of the population. This is a community with deep roots, where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia and share British or Irish heritage. Only 10.2% of people here were born overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most prominent, each accounting for over 45% of the people. Irish and Scottish backgrounds also feature strongly, with each representing over 9% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Far fewer people were born overseas here than in the rest of Australia, where the national figure is 27.7%. While the proportion of overseas-born residents rose slightly to 10.2% since 2011, this remains well below the Tasmanian average of 15.4%.
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 Latrobe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA63810/latrobe/topic/ancestry-heritage