15.4% ▼ -42.5%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dover · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Dover
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Dover than in most similar areas. While 15.4% of residents were born abroad, this is a sharp drop from 26.7% back in 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 43%, followed by Australian at 34.4% and Irish at 10.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the national figure of 27.7%, though it is about the same as the Tasmanian average. Most residents were born in Australia (76.4%), with smaller groups from England, New Zealand, China and Nepal.
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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621010/dover/topic/ancestry-heritage