1.0% ▼ -91.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Pukatja (Ernabella) · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower share of people were born overseas in Pukatja (Ernabella) (L) compared to the rest of the country. Just 1.0% of residents were born outside Australia, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 27.7%. This reflects a population that is overwhelmingly Australian-born.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported here are Australian at 2.7% and English at 2.3%, followed by Chinese, Scottish and Italian.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 1.0% of people were born overseas, which is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1%. This proportion has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2011, and 93.8% of residents were born in Australia.
1.0% ▼ -91.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Pukatja (Ernabella) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421033/pukatja/topic/ancestry-heritage