8.6% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cooks Gap · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cooks Gap
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Cooks Gap compared to the rest of the country. Only 8.6% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplaces than most other parts of New South Wales.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 47.7% and 40.3% of the population. Other notable groups include Irish, Scottish and Dutch backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The overseas-born population is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. While 81.4% of the community was born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are England at 3.8% and New Zealand at 1.5%.
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 Cooks Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11018/cooks-gap/topic/ancestry-heritage