5.8% ▲ +16.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Spalding · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Spalding
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Deeply rooted local heritage shapes daily life in Spalding, where nearly half of the residents claim Australian ancestry. The area is far more homogenous than the rest of the country, with a very small percentage of people born overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people in the area identify as Australian (48.8%) or English (36.2%). German ancestry is also common at 11.9%, followed by Irish and Scottish roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.8% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the national average of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia (87.7%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 3.5%.
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 Spalding [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41358/spalding/topic/ancestry-heritage