8.5% ▼ -32.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Duck Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Duck Ponds
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A gap of 19 percentage points separates the proportion of overseas-born residents in Duck Ponds from the national figure. This sparsely populated area is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a strong heritage of English and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian at 18.3% and English at 16.5%. Other notable ancestries include Irish and German, both at 4.9%, and Scottish at 3.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.5% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national average. Most residents were born in Australia (84.5%), followed by small numbers from New Zealand and England.
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 Duck Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40375/duck-ponds/topic/ancestry-heritage