21.8% ▲ +31.4%
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Northern Territory · State / Territory
Ancestry & Birthplace in Northern Territory
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 21.8% of people in the Northern Territory were born overseas, which is well below the national figure. This makes the region one of the least overseas-born areas in Australia, though the proportion of people born abroad has risen since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 24.1% and English at 23.1%, followed by Irish at 7.3%, Scottish at 6.3%, and German at 3.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 69.5% of residents were born in Australia, the Philippines is the most common overseas birthplace at 2.7%. This overseas-born population grew by 5.2 percentage points between 2011 and 2021.
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 Northern Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/7/northern-territory/topic/ancestry-heritage