8.1% ▲ +26.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cessnock · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cessnock
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Cessnock compared to the rest of the state and country. Only 8.1% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This reflects a population with very deep local roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 40% and English at 38.3%, followed by Scottish at 11.3% and Irish at 8.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 85.9% of people in Cessnock were born in Australia, with England (1.8%) and New Zealand (1.1%) as the most common overseas birthplaces.
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10877/cessnock/topic/ancestry-heritage