17.5% ▼ -49.3%
Lower than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Whitlam · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Whitlam
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A sharp drop in overseas births has changed the makeup of Whitlam, where the proportion of people born abroad fell by 17 percentage points since 2011. The area is now very heavily Australian-born, with the typical resident identifying as having English or Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 39.8%, followed closely by Australian at 37.6%. Other common backgrounds include Scottish and Irish, while Italian ancestry accounts for 4.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 17.5% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales and national rates. Most residents were born in Australia (77.9%), while the next most common birthplaces are England (4.6%) and New Zealand (1.1%).
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 Whitlam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED147/whitlam/topic/ancestry-heritage