4.8% ▼ -59.4%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Taroom · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Taroom
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very small number of overseas-born residents means Taroom is a community with deep roots in the local area. Only 4.8% of people were born outside Australia, and the vast majority of residents trace their family history back to Australia and the British Isles.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the population identifies as Australian by ancestry, with English at 42.6% and Scottish at 8.1% also being common.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Very few people here were born overseas, at just 4.8%, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has fallen by 7.1 percentage points since 2011, with 84.4% 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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321100/taroom/topic/ancestry-heritage