9.8% ▼ -35.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tharwa · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tharwa
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common identity in Tharwa, where 43.9% of people claim this heritage. This small community is largely born in Australia, with very few residents coming from overseas compared to the rest of the territory.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 40.2%, followed by Irish at 26.8% and Scottish at 12.2%. German ancestry is less frequent at 4.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas here than in the ACT or Australia, at just 9.8%. This reflects the fact that 90.2% of the population was born in Australia.
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 Tharwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80123/tharwa/topic/ancestry-heritage