3.4% ▲ —
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Canteen Creek · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Canteen Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Canteen Creek than in the rest of the Northern Territory. Most residents were born in Australia, though the area has a small mix of Scottish and English ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Scottish ancestry is the most common listed at 6.1%, followed by English ancestry at 5.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.4% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 21.8% and the national figure of 27.7%. This overseas-born group consists entirely of people from New Zealand, and the figure has risen 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
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 Canteen Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722013/canteen-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage