26.5% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lower Wattle Grove · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lower Wattle Grove
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Lower Wattle Grove than in the rest of Tasmania. While 26.5% of residents were born abroad, this is 11 percentage points higher than the state figure, though it sits slightly below the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Ancestry is mostly British and Irish, with 42.2% of people claiming Australian roots, followed by English at 40.2% and Irish at 23.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Overseas birth rates are much higher than in most similar areas. England is the most common birthplace outside Australia, accounting for 16.7% of the population.
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 Lower Wattle Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60364/lower-wattle-grove/topic/ancestry-heritage