40.5% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Brookvale · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Brookvale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A huge 40.5% of people in Brookvale were born overseas, making it one of the most internationally diverse areas in the region. This high level of migration brings a wide range of backgrounds to the suburb, where English and Australian ancestries are most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 31.4%, followed by Australian at 22.1% and Irish at 10.3%. Italian and Scottish backgrounds are also prominent, each accounting for nearly 8% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Forty percent of residents were born outside Australia, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. While 55% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are England, China, the Philippines, and New Zealand.
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 Brookvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10598/brookvale/topic/ancestry-heritage