3.5% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Alison · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Alison, where 45.9% of people claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with very few residents coming from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 40.0%, followed by Irish (17.6%), Scottish (10.6%) and Italian (9.4%) heritage.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.5% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This is much lower than most other areas, with 94.1% of the population born in Australia.
3.5% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Alison [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10034/alison/topic/ancestry-heritage