56.1% ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 52.5%
- 2016: 53.9%
- 2021: 56.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Fairfield · Sub-region (SA3)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Fairfield
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of the population in Fairfield was born overseas, and this proportion has risen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011. It is now a place where 56.1% of residents were born in another country, a figure far above the Australian average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Vietnamese ancestry is the most common at 19.5%, followed by Chinese at 13.2%. Australian, English, and Italian ancestries each make up smaller portions of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is among the highest for similar areas, sitting far above the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. While 38.7% of people were born in Australia, many others arrived from Vietnam (16.3%) and China (1.8%).
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/12702/fairfield/topic/ancestry-heritage