9.6% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Geranium · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Geranium
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Geranium, where 62.7% of residents claim this heritage. The area is very heavily Australian-born, with a small fraction of the population arriving from overseas compared to state and national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries, with 62.7% and 45.8% of people respectively. Other notable groups include Scottish at 16.9%, German at 6.0%, and Irish at 3.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national figure of 27.7%. This reflects the fact that 90.4% of the population was born in Australia.
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 Geranium [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40484/geranium/topic/ancestry-heritage