7.0% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Yorketown · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Yorketown
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong tradition of local roots continues in Yorketown, where the vast majority of people were born in Australia. This pattern remains steady, with very few residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the state and country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 46.2% and 44.5% of the population respectively, followed by German at 10.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.0% of people 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 (82.3%), with England being the next most common birthplace at 4.3%.
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 Yorketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41689/yorketown/topic/ancestry-heritage