3.4% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
East Ridgley · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in East Ridgley
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in East Ridgley than in most similar areas. This is a community with deep roots in Australia, where the vast majority of residents were born here and identify with traditional British and Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people in the area identify as Australian, with 61.8% claiming this ancestry, followed by English at 42.7%, Irish at 18.0% and Scottish at 9.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.4% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Tasmania figure of 15.4% and the national figure of 27.7%. About 97.8% of the population was born in Australia, while 5.6% were born in England.
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 East Ridgley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60178/east-ridgley/topic/ancestry-heritage