64.3% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.6%
- 2016: 64.5%
- 2021: 64.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Auburn · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Auburn
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far higher share of people were born overseas in Auburn than in the rest of the state, with 64.3% of residents born outside Australia. This makes the area one of the most internationally diverse in the region, where nearly two-thirds of the population grew up in another country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese ancestry is the most common at 21.8%, followed by Indian at 6.1% and English at 6.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 28.0% of residents were born in Australia, many others came from China (14.4%), Nepal (12.7%), and India (5.4%). This explains why the overseas birth rate is 35 points higher than the New South Wales figure.
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 Auburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10107/auburn/topic/ancestry-heritage