3.5% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Burroway · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Burroway
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive gap exists between Burroway and the rest of the country, with only 3.5% of people born overseas. This is far below the national figure of 27.7%, marking it as an area where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the population identifies as Australian by descent (45.0%), followed closely by English (42.7%) and Irish (15.2%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. This is reflected in the local breakdown, where 86.5% of people were 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 Burroway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10712/burroway/topic/ancestry-heritage