10.0% ▲ +20.8%
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bathurst Regional · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bathurst Regional
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common root for people in Bathurst Regional, making up 42.1% of the population. The area has a very strong connection to British and Irish heritage and a much smaller proportion of overseas-born residents than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most prominent at 42.1% and 40.9%, followed by Irish at 14.3% and Scottish at 10.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.0% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has risen slightly by 1.7 percentage points since 2011, with 84.7% of the population born in 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 Bathurst Regional [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10470/bathurst-regional/topic/ancestry-heritage