7.4% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Home Island · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Home Island
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very little has changed in the birthplace of Home Island residents since 2011, with only 7.4% of people born overseas. This is a sparsely populated area where three-quarters of the population were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 22.5%, Chinese at 2.3%, and Irish at 1.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.4% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the 28.9% figure for the Other Territories and the 27.7% national average. This proportion has barely changed from the 7.9% recorded in 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 Home Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL922001/home-island/topic/ancestry-heritage