5.7% ▲ +37.8%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bland · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bland
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive gap exists between Bland and the rest of the country, with only 5.7% of people born overseas. This is far below the national figure of 27.7%, marking Bland as an area where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 44.2% and English at 41.1%, followed by Irish, Scottish, and German roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.7% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. This share has risen slightly by 1.6 percentage points since 2011, though 84.3% of the population was still 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 Bland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10800/bland/topic/ancestry-heritage