50.5% ▲ +19.2%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 47.6%
- 2021: 50.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bennelong · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bennelong
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Over half the population in Bennelong was born overseas, placing it among the highest areas for overseas birthplaces. This international character is reflected in the ancestry data, where Chinese heritage is the most common at 28.8%.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese ancestry is the most frequent at 28.8%, followed by English at 16.2% and Australian at 15.5%. Other common ancestries include Irish and Indian, both at around 5.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Half of all residents, or 50.5%, were born outside Australia, a figure far above the national rate of 27.7% and the state's 29.3%. This proportion has risen by 8.1 percentage points since 2011, with China (13.7%) and India (4.7%) being the most common birthplaces after Australia.
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 Bennelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED103/bennelong/topic/ancestry-heritage