9.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dry Plain · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 9.5% of people in Dry Plain were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This small proportion of overseas-born residents contributes to a community where most people share a strong connection to traditional roots.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian and English, each accounting for 47.6% of the population, followed by Irish at 33.3%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With only 9.5% of residents born overseas, this figure is far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. Most of the population was born in Australia, representing 69% of the area.
9.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Dry Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11298/dry-plain/topic/ancestry-heritage