10.2% ▲ +31.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wattle Hill · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wattle Hill
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A fairly typical mix of backgrounds defines Wattle Hill, where about 10.2% of residents were born overseas. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it is much lower than the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 55.1% and 47.7% of the population respectively. Other notable roots include Scottish (11.4%), Irish (5.7%), and German (5.1%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.2% of people here were born overseas, which is well below the Tasmanian rate of 15.4% and far below the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (86.4%), with England as the next most common birthplace at 4.5%.
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 Wattle Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60723/wattle-hill/topic/ancestry-heritage