14.7% ▲ +33.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Lofty · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Lofty
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common roots for people in Mount Lofty, with 42.5% and 36.2% of residents claiming these backgrounds. This heritage is reflected in the local population, where the vast majority of people were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English, Australian, Irish, Scottish and German are the five most common ancestries in the area. English is the most frequent, claimed by 42.5% of residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 14.7% of people here were born overseas, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of the population, 82.6%, was 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 Mount Lofty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31984/mount-lofty/topic/ancestry-heritage