4.2% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dungog · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Dungog
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Dungog than in most similar areas. The town is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a small minority of residents arriving from other countries.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 47.4% and 45.5% of the population respectively. Irish ancestry is also common at 12.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.2% of people in Dungog were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. About 90.2% of the community was born in Australia.
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 Dungog [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11323/dungog/topic/ancestry-heritage