38.7% ▲ +18.0%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lane Cove · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lane Cove
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 39% of people in Lane Cove were born overseas, a figure that has risen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more internationally diverse than the national average. English and Australian ancestries remain the most common, but Chinese heritage is also very prominent.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 28.5% and Australian at 24.3%, followed by Chinese at 14.1% and Irish at 11.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 38.7% of residents born overseas, Lane Cove is well above the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. While 58.1% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are China, England and India.
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 Lane Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14700/lane-cove/topic/ancestry-heritage