8.8% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Telegraph Point · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Telegraph Point
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Fewer people were born overseas in Telegraph Point than in most similar areas. The community is predominantly Australian-born, with an ancestry that is overwhelmingly English and Australian.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries here, making up 45% and 42.1% of residents. Irish, Scottish, and German backgrounds follow at 10.9%, 9.3%, and 4% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.8% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most of the population was born in Australia (81.1%), followed by New Zealand at 2.8% and England at 1.8%.
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 Telegraph Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13796/telegraph-point/topic/ancestry-heritage