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On Census night 8 August 2006, of people usually residing in Tasmania who stated a birthplace, 88.7% were Australian-born. The largest overseas-born group was from the United Kingdom and Ireland, 23,253 people; followed by New Zealand, 4,158; the Netherlands, 2,435; and Germany, 2,114.

Of Tasmanian local government areas (LGAs), the LGAs with the highest proportions of their populations stating that they were born in Australia were Brighton, 95.0%, Southern Midlands, 93.6%, Dorset, 93.5% and Central Highlands, 93.4%. The Greater Hobart-Southern Region was the region with the lowest proportion of its population born in Australia. In that region, Hobart with 80.3% of its population born in Australia and Kingborough with 83.0% had the lowest proportions of their populations born in Australia.

	Australia (b)	United Kingdom & Ireland	New Zealand	Netherlands	Germany	Italy	Total (c)	Australian -born(d)
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	%
Statistical division/local government area
Greater Hobart-Southern
Brighton	12,222	298	63	24	46	11	14,121	95.0
Central Highlands	1,916	74	20	8	8	-	2,244	93.4
Clarence	42,137	2,459	332	184	232	79	49,638	90.0
Derwent Valley	8,104	417	85	20	20	10	9,479	92.1
Glamorgan/Spring Bay	3,437	232	42	15	19	5	4,191	89.2
Glenorchy	36,102	1,488	249	96	215	172	43,413	89.7
Hobart	35,774	2,714	524	171	277	299	47,698	80.3
Huon Valley	11,484	954	148	74	98	18	14,000	87.3
Kingborough	24,472	2,425	331	365	229	55	30,837	83.0
Sorell	10,227	578	96	26	47	9	11,925	91.2
Southern Midlands	4,948	205	43	16	11	5	5,672	93.6
Tasman	1,843	141	37	6	10	8	2,241	87.5
Total	192,666	11,985	1,970	1,005	1,212	671	235,459	87.4
Northern
Break O'Day	4,891	389	71	28	39	-	6,069	87.6
Dorset	6,124	195	68	33	16	18	6,997	93.5
Flinders	751	34	6	-	3	6	859	91.1
George Town	5,374	446	47	46	34	12	6,529	88.3
Launceston	52,103	2,461	445	307	238	141	62,220	89.3
Meander Valley	15,550	1,006	165	110	70	40	18,349	89.7
Northern Midlands	10,427	545	83	56	44	13	12,092	91.8
West Tamar	16,855	1,457	226	225	127	48	20,814	85.7
Total	112,075	6,533	1,111	805	571	278	133,929	89.1
Mersey-Lyell
Burnie	16,471	712	149	69	66	8	19,054	91.6
Central Coast	17,680	1,008	137	219	52	13	20,662	91.0
Circular Head	6,955	196	211	46	22	-	7,955	91.9
Devonport	20,650	1,079	202	121	58	29	24,014	91.1
Kentish	4,880	314	45	35	29	5	5,760	89.7
King Island	1,346	57	58	17	15	3	1,642	86.8
Latrobe	7,520	392	75	41	25	4	8,630	91.6
Waratah/Wynyard	11,425	772	131	55	37	13	13,413	90.0
West Coast	4,268	154	46	18	21	8	5,002	91.5
Total	91,195	4,684	1,054	621	325	83	106,132	91.0
Tasmania(e)	396,659	23,253	4,158	2,435	2,114	1,035	476,481	88.7