10.2% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Belford · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Belford
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
About the same as similar areas, Belford is a place where most people have roots in the British Isles. The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, and those who identify with an ancestry do so most strongly with Australian and English roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are equally common, each held by 42% of residents. Other common roots include Irish (13.6%), Scottish (9.7%), and German (8.0%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.2% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This is reflected in the fact that 82.4% of the population was born in Australia.
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 Belford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10258/belford/topic/ancestry-heritage