9.7% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sleaford · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Sleaford
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Sleaford than in the rest of the country, with only 9.7% of the population born abroad. This is a community with deep local roots, where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian (58.1%) and English (54.8%), followed by Irish at 12.9% and German at 9.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 9.7%, the share of overseas-born residents is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national average of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia (83.9%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 9.7%.
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 Sleaford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41345/sleaford/topic/ancestry-heritage