2.9% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Clergate · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Clergate
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong preference for Australian-born residents has remained a steady feature of Clergate. The area is overwhelmingly local, with 92.2% of people born in Australia and a small overseas-born population of just 2.9%.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the people here claim Australian ancestry (54.4%), followed by English (36.4%), Irish (8.3%), and Scottish (7.8%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The 2.9% of people born overseas is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This makes Clergate's overseas-born population much lower than most similar areas.
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 Clergate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10928/clergate/topic/ancestry-heritage