27.8% ▲ +40.1%
Higher than 55% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mackellar · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mackellar
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
About the same as the national figure, 27.8% of people in Mackellar were born overseas. This is a modest result for the area, though the proportion of overseas-born residents has risen by 8.0 percentage points since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 41.4% and Australian at 32.2%. Other frequent responses include Irish (12.0%), Scottish (10.7%), and Italian (5.5%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most people here were born in Australia (69.1%), followed by England (7.2%) and New Zealand (2.0%). This birth rate is a little below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%.
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 Mackellar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED126/mackellar/topic/ancestry-heritage