57.7% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 52.6%
- 2016: 57.2%
- 2021: 57.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Burwood · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Burwood
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of the people in Burwood were born overseas, creating a multicultural community where Chinese ancestry is the most common. This diversity is visible in the local population, with 57.7% of residents born outside Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese is the most common ancestry at 32.8%, followed by English at 10.7%, Australian at 9.6%, Italian at 7.3% and Irish at 4.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas rose 5.1 percentage points since 2011 to reach 57.7%, which is far above the national figure of 27.7%. While 37% were born in Australia, many others arrived from China (18.1%), Nepal (7.6%), India (3.1%) and Vietnam (2.7%).
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 Burwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11300/burwood/topic/ancestry-heritage