24.0% ▲ +30.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Airds · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Airds
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Airds than in the rest of the state, with only 24% of residents arriving from another country. While Australian and English ancestries are the most common, the area has a much higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar areas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 28.6% and English at 23.6%, followed by Irish, Scottish and German backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 24% of people here were born overseas, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. Most residents were born in Australia (63.4%), while the next most common birthplaces are New Zealand, India, England and the Philippines.
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 Airds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10022/airds/topic/ancestry-heritage