37.5% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wentworth · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wentworth
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A much higher share of people were born overseas in Wentworth than in most similar areas. While over half the population was born in Australia, 37.5% of residents grew up abroad, a figure that has risen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 32.7%, followed by Australian at 23.1% and Irish at 13.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The 37.5% of people born overseas is well above the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. After Australia, the most common birthplaces are England at 7.3% and South Africa at 3.9%.
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 Wentworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED145/wentworth/topic/ancestry-heritage