18.6% ▲ +42.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Leets Vale · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Leets Vale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 18.6% of people in Leets Vale were born overseas, a figure that is well below the national average. Most residents identify with traditional British Isles roots, making the area's cultural makeup quite distinct from the broader state. English is the most common ancestry at 50.8%.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the population identifies as English, followed by Australian at 20.3% and Irish at 18.6%. Scottish and German roots are also common, making up 16.9% and 6.8% of residents respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. Most residents are born in Australia, accounting for 62.7% of the population.
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 Leets Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12303/leets-vale/topic/ancestry-heritage