12.8% ▲ +33.9%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Margate · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Margate
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian ancestries dominate the local identity in Margate, where almost 90% of people claim one of these two backgrounds. While the area remains overwhelmingly Australian-born, the proportion of residents born overseas has risen over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
People here most commonly identify as Australian (45.4%) or English (44.1%). Other common ancestries include Irish (10.2%) and Scottish (9.8%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 12.8% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and has risen 3.2 percentage points since 2011. This is still far below the national figure of 27.7% and a little below Tasmania's 15.4%.
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 Margate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615014/margate/topic/ancestry-heritage