5.2% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Gowrie · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common root in Gowrie, where 47.9% of people claim this background. The community has deep ties to British heritage, and very few residents were born outside Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half the population identifies as Australian (47.9%) or English (46.9%), with Scottish and Irish roots also common at 19.8% and 13.5% respectively.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.2% of people were born overseas, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. The vast majority of the population, 83.3%, was born in Australia.
5.2% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Gowrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11736/gowrie/topic/ancestry-heritage