18.8% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Burnie · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Burnie
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Burnie than in most similar areas. While 18.8% of the population was born abroad, this is well above the Tasmanian figure but still well below the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 45.6%, followed by Australian at 35.2% and Irish at 13.0%. Other common ancestries include Scottish at 11.0% and Indian at 3.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most residents were born in Australia (74.2%), but India (3.2%), England (3.8%), and Nepal (1.3%) are also key birthplaces. The overseas-born population is well above the 15.4% seen across Tasmania, though it sits 8.9 percentage points below the Australian average.
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 Burnie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60084/burnie/topic/ancestry-heritage