7.5% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Coorong · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Coorong
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Coorong compared to the rest of the country. Only 7.5% of residents were born outside Australia, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 27.7%. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than most other parts of Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people here claim Australian ancestry (62.3%) or English ancestry (32.1%), with smaller groups identifying as German or Scottish.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 7.5%, the share of overseas-born residents is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1%. The vast majority of the population was born in Australia, accounting for 77.4% of residents.
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 Coorong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40308/coorong/topic/ancestry-heritage