19.6% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Kettering · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Kettering
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly one in five people in Kettering were born overseas, a figure well above the Tasmanian average. This makes the area much more internationally diverse than most similar places, though it remains less diverse than the Australian national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 48.9%, followed by Australian at 37.8% and Irish at 13.0%. Scottish and German roots are also seen in 12.1% and 5.4% of residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 19.6% of residents were born outside Australia, which is well above the 15.4% seen across Tasmania. While 75.1% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are England at 7.8%, and New Zealand and South Africa at 1.3% 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 Kettering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60302/kettering/topic/ancestry-heritage