50.1% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.7%
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 50.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Merrylands · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Merrylands
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Over half of the people in Merrylands were born overseas, a figure that is far above the national average. This creates a diverse community where Australian ancestry is the most common at 10.9%, followed closely by Chinese ancestry at 10.0%.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Ancestry is varied here, with English (8.2%), Indian (3.9%), and Filipino (2.4%) also representing significant parts of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
A huge 50.1% of residents were born overseas, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. Aside from those born in Australia (40.9%), the most common birthplaces are China (5.4%), India (3.3%), Nepal (2.9%), and the Philippines (1.9%).
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 Merrylands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12599/merrylands/topic/ancestry-heritage