13.1% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Gawler West · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Gawler West
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English heritage is the most common root for people in Gawler West, where 50.5% of residents claim this ancestry. This reflects a community with deep ties to British and Australian origins, though it has a much smaller proportion of overseas-born residents than the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most frequent, making up 50.5% and 36.4% of the population. Other common roots include Irish (10.3%), German (9.8%) and Scottish (8.3%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 13.1% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (79.6%), followed by England at 7.4%.
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 Gawler West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40480/gawler-west/topic/ancestry-heritage