6.5% ▼ -52.2%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tottenham · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tottenham
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Tottenham (L), where 41.8% of residents claim this background. The area has a very small proportion of overseas-born residents, which has fallen significantly over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common, making up 41.8% and 39.2% of the population. Scottish, Irish and German heritage follow at 8.4%, 5.3% and 1.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.5% of people here were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 29.3%. This proportion has fallen 7.1 percentage points since 2011, with 76.8% of the population 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 Tottenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122137/tottenham/topic/ancestry-heritage