6.9% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lyons (Derwent) · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lyons (Derwent)
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common in Lyons (Derwent), with each claiming about 45% of the population. This is a community with very few residents born outside Australia, reflecting a deep ancestral tie to these two groups.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half the people here identify as English (44.8%) or Australian (44.5%), followed by Irish at 8.1% and Scottish at 6.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.9% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011. The vast majority of the population was born in Australia (84.4%).
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 Lyons (Derwent) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60501/lyons/topic/ancestry-heritage