27.8% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
St Peters · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in St Peters
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Overseas born residents have become more common in St Peters, with 27.8% of people now born outside Australia. This figure is well above the South Australian average, making the area more diverse than many other similar suburbs.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English (33.2%) and Australian (26.7%) are the most common ancestries, followed by Italian (12.1%), Scottish (9.3%) and Irish (8.4%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 69.9% of residents were born in Australia, the area has a high proportion of overseas births compared to most other areas. England is the most common overseas birthplace at 4.3%, followed by India and China at 2.8% each.
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 St Peters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41375/st-peters/topic/ancestry-heritage