Numbers and Proportions per Cent. at Successive Censuses.—(I.), TABLE IV.—Showing the Numbers and Proportions per Cent. of Persons of different Birthplaces at the successive Census Periods.
| Where Born. |
Persons. |
| 1846. |
1851. |
1854. |
1857. |
1861. |
1871. |
| Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
Numbers. |
Proportions per Cent. |
| In Australian Colonies |
7,583 |
23.06 |
20,470 |
26.72 |
41,233 |
17.39 |
84,881 |
20.67 |
157,911 |
29.23 |
358,266 |
48.98 |
| England |
10,100 |
30.72 |
28,908 |
37.25 |
97,943 |
41.33 |
147,182 |
35.84 |
169,586 |
31.39 |
164,287 |
22.46 |
| Wales |
121 |
0.37 |
377 |
0.49 |
2,326 |
0.98 |
4,522 |
1.09 |
6,055 |
1.12 |
6,614 |
0.90 |
| Scotland |
4,225 |
12.84 |
8,053 |
10.37 |
36,044 |
15.20 |
53,199 |
12.95 |
60,701 |
11.24 |
56,210 |
7.69 |
| Ireland |
9,126 |
27.75 |
14,618 |
18.83 |
39,728 |
16.75 |
64,592 |
15.72 |
87,160 |
16.14 |
100,468 |
13.73 |
| Other British Dominions and of English Parentage, and at sea |
1,403 |
4.27 |
3,425 |
4.42 |
4,723 |
1.99 |
8,027 |
1.95 |
8,030 |
1.48 |
7,626 |
1.04 |
| Foreign Countries |
321 |
0.99 |
1,494 |
1.92 |
12,892 |
5.56 |
42,948 |
10.46 |
46,338 |
8.57 |
37,315 |
5.10 |
| Unspecified |
|
|
|
|
1,909 |
0.80 |
5,415 |
1.32 |
4,541 |
0.83 |
742 |
0.10 |
| Total |
32,879 |
100.00 |
77,345 |
100.00 |
236,798 |
100.00 |
410,766 |
100.00 |
540,322 |
100.00 |
731,528 |
100.00 |
| ALLEGIANCE. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| British subjects. |
32,558 |
9,901 |
75,851 |
98.07 |
221,046 |
93.35 |
360,779 |
87.83 |
487,603 |
90.24 |
695,932 |
95.13 |
| Foreign subjects |
321 |
0.99 |
1,494 |
1.93 |
12,892 |
5.44 |
42,948 |
10.46 |
46,338 |
8.58 |
34,854 |
4.77 |
| Allegiance unknown |
|
|
|
|
2,860 |
1.21 |
7,039 |
1.71 |
6,381 |
1.18 |
742 |
0.10 |