26.2% ▲ +31.6%
Higher than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Alice Springs · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Alice Springs
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A diverse mix of global backgrounds defines daily life in Alice Springs, where over a quarter of the population was born overseas. This international character is reflected in the community's varied ancestral roots and a growing number of residents arriving from abroad.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral roots are English at 26.9% and Australian at 26.1%, followed by Irish (9.2%), Scottish (7.6%) and German (5.1%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
More than a quarter of residents were born overseas, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and has risen by 6.3 percentage points since 2011. At 26.2%, this is well above the Northern Territory's 21.8%, though it remains a little below the national figure of 27.7%. While 67.1% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are India (3.7%) and New Zealand (3.2%).
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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA70200/alice-springs/topic/ancestry-heritage