6.7% ▼ -47.6%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Telegraph Point · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Telegraph Point
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A huge majority of people in Telegraph Point were born in Australia, creating a community with very few overseas-born residents. Most people here trace their roots back to Australia, England, and Ireland.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the residents identify as Australian, while English (41.4%) and Irish (10.5%) are the next most common ancestries.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.7% of people were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has fallen 6.1 percentage points since 2011, and 81% 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 Telegraph Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122130/telegraph-point/topic/ancestry-heritage