6.6% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Keith · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Keith
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly half of the people in Keith identify as Australian by ancestry. This strong local connection is mirrored in the birthplace data, as the vast majority of the population was born within Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian (46.8%) and English (40.7%), followed by German (10.3%), Scottish (10.2%) and Irish (7.0%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.6% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the South Australian (24.1%) and national (27.7%) rates. This proportion has barely changed since 2011, with 85.8% of people 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 Keith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421018/keith/topic/ancestry-heritage