16.5% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cooma · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cooma
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Cooma than in the rest of the state, with only 16.5% of residents born abroad. The area remains strongly tied to its roots, with a huge majority of people claiming Australian, English, Irish or Scottish ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries at 39.1% and 35.2%, followed by Irish at 11.9% and Scottish at 10.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 16.5%, the proportion of people born overseas is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most of the population was born in Australia (77.8%), with England, New Zealand, India and Italy being the next most common 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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11036/cooma/topic/ancestry-heritage