4.8% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Ancestry & Birthplace in Inner Regional Australia
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower share of people were born overseas in Inner Regional Australia compared to the national figure. Only 4.8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is 23 percentage points below the Australian average. This makes it one of the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents at this level.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common, at 19%, followed by English ancestry at 11.3%. Other notable groups include Irish and German ancestries, both at 2.3%, and Scottish at 1.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most people here were born in Australia, accounting for 65.5% of the population. The proportion of people born overseas has barely changed since 2011, dipping slightly from 5.6% to 4.8%.
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA91/inner-regional-australia/topic/ancestry-heritage