2.5% ▲ —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wadeye · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wadeye
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost everyone in Wadeye was born in Australia, creating a community with very few overseas arrivals. This is most evident in the birthplace data, where only 2.5% of the population were born in another country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported include Australian and English, each at 4.1%, followed by Irish at 2.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 2.5%, the proportion of people born overseas is far below the Northern Territory figure of 21.8% and the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, representing 94.3% 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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70275/wadeye/topic/ancestry-heritage