7.7% ▼ -36.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Swan Bay · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Swan Bay
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Swan Bay compared to the rest of the country. Only 7.7% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This makes the area much more domestically born than most other regions.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people here claim Australian (47.3%) or English (43.5%) ancestry, followed by Irish (10.7%) and Scottish (8.8%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The same trend is seen in birthplaces, with 83.4% of residents born in Australia. This is well below the Tasmanian average of 15.4% for overseas-born residents.
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 Swan Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60658/swan-bay/topic/ancestry-heritage