29.3% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Gowrie Park · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 30% of people in Gowrie Park were born overseas, which is far above the Tasmanian average. This makes the area much more internationally diverse than most similar places. English and Australian ancestries are the most common backgrounds here.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 58.5%, followed by Australian at 43.9% and Irish at 17.1%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
People born overseas make up 29.3% of the population, a figure far above the 15.4% seen across Tasmania. This is slightly above the national average, with New Zealand and England being the most common birthplaces outside Australia.
29.3% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Gowrie Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60243/gowrie-park/topic/ancestry-heritage