20.6% ▼ -24.5%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Port Adelaide · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Port Adelaide
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
About one in five people in Port Adelaide were born overseas, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. While English and Australian ancestries are the most common, the proportion of overseas-born residents has fallen since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 41.1%, followed by Australian at 33.4%. Other significant groups include Scottish, Irish, and German ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 20.6%, the share of people born overseas is well below the national figure of 27.7% and the state's 24.1%. This number has fallen 6.7 percentage points since 2011, with 75.3% of residents now 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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40037/port-adelaide/topic/ancestry-heritage