1.9% ▲ +576.1%
Lower than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Galiwinku · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A small increase in overseas-born residents has been seen in Galiwinku, where the share of people born abroad rose to 1.9% in 2021. This is a very small proportion of the population, with the vast majority of residents being born in Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported are English at 2.9%, Australian at 1.8%, and Scottish at 0.8%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 1.9% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 21.8% and the national average of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (96.0%), though this overseas-born share rose 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
1.9% ▲ +576.1%
Lower than 98% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Galiwinku [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715001/galiwinku/topic/ancestry-heritage