32.7% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Greystanes · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Greystanes
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Over a third of the population in Greystanes was born overseas, making it more diverse than both the state and the national average. This shift toward a more global community is evident in the mix of ancestries and birthplaces found across the suburb.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 21% and English at 16.4%, while Italian, Irish and Indian backgrounds also make up significant portions of the local mix.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 32.7% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is well above the 29.3% seen in New South Wales and the 27.7% national average. While 62.9% of residents were born in Australia, the next most common birthplaces are India, China, the Philippines and New Zealand.
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 Greystanes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11787/greystanes/topic/ancestry-heritage