8.8% ▲ +28.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Torrington · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Torrington
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Torrington than in the rest of the state, with only 8.8% of residents arriving from another country. This creates a strong local lean towards traditional roots, as the vast majority of the population was born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian at 43.3% and English at 41.5%, followed by German, Irish and Scottish roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 87.3% of people born in Australia, the overseas birth rate is far below the national figure of 27.7%. Those born abroad most commonly come from the Philippines, England and New Zealand.
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 Torrington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32862/torrington/topic/ancestry-heritage