3.8% ▲ +91.8%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Matong · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Matong
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very few changes have occurred in the ancestral makeup of Matong over the last decade. The area remains dominated by people of English and Australian descent, with the vast majority of residents born within the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 42.1%, followed by Australian at 33.3% and Irish at 17.0%. Scottish and German backgrounds make up smaller shares of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.8% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national rate of 27.7%. About 80% of the population 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 Matong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12533/matong/topic/ancestry-heritage