7.9% ▲ +77.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Yorketown · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Yorketown
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A growing number of overseas-born residents have moved to Yorketown (L), where the proportion of people born abroad rose by 3.5 percentage points since 2011. While this figure has climbed, the town remains far more Australian-born than the state and national averages. English and Australian ancestries dominate the local identity.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the residents claim English ancestry (46.5%), followed closely by Australian (45.1%) and Scottish (10.5%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.9% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (82%), while England is the most common overseas birthplace at 4.9%.
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 Yorketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421043/yorketown/topic/ancestry-heritage