14.4% ▲ +46.9%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Ancestry & Birthplace in Remote Australia
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage for people living in Remote Australia, where 42.2% of the population claims this background. The region has a strong connection to its roots, with a combined 81% of people identifying as having English or Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English (42.2%) and Australian (38.8%), followed by Irish at 10.3%, Scottish at 8.3%, and German at 4.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Far fewer people were born overseas here than across Australia, with only 14.4% born abroad compared to the national figure of 27.7%. This overseas-born population has risen by 4.6 percentage points since 2011, and the most common birthplaces are Australia (74.6%), England (3.4%), and New Zealand (1.6%).
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA63/remote-australia/topic/ancestry-heritage