4.7% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Daveyston · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very small proportion of people in Daveyston were born overseas, a trend that has remained stable since 2011. This is a community with deep local roots, where 95.3% of residents were born in Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 48.2%, followed closely by Australian at 43.5% and German at 21.2%. Other common backgrounds include Irish and Scottish, both at 7.1%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.7% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national figure of 27.7%. This is much lower than most other similar areas.
4.7% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Daveyston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40352/daveyston/topic/ancestry-heritage