45.9% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.6%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Blair Athol · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Blair Athol
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A huge shift in diversity has occurred in Blair Athol, where nearly half of all residents were now born overseas. This makes the area far more multicultural than the national average, with a strong presence of people from the Philippines and India.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 17% and English at 15%, followed by Filipino at 12.8% and Indian at 10.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 45.9% of people were born overseas, a figure far above the 29.3% seen in New South Wales. This high overseas birth rate is reflected in the population, with 9.1% born in the Philippines and 5.7% in India.
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 Blair Athol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10399/blair-athol/topic/ancestry-heritage