3.3% ▼ -21.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Somerton · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Somerton
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A vast gap separates Somerton from the rest of the country, with only 3.3% of residents born overseas. This makes it far less diverse than the state or national average. Most people here identify as having Australian or English ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the population claims Australian ancestry (49.6%) or English ancestry (48.5%). Other common backgrounds include Irish (9.9%) and Scottish (8.8%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national average of 27.7%. About 90.1% of residents were born in Australia.
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 Somerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13588/somerton/topic/ancestry-heritage