12.3% ▲ +7.0%
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Port Stephens · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Port Stephens
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Port Stephens, where 44.7% of residents claim these roots. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born and has a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than most other parts of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Almost half of the population identifies as English, followed closely by those of Australian (41.2%), Irish (11.4%), and Scottish (11.3%) descent.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 12.3% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose slightly by 0.8 percentage points since 2011, with 82.4% of the population 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 Port Stephens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10069/port-stephens/topic/ancestry-heritage