9.2% ▲ +52.2%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Arthur · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Arthur
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Traditional roots run deep in Mount Arthur, where over half the population identifies as Australian. Most residents have ancestral ties to the British Isles, with a small number of people born overseas, making the area much less diverse than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of residents identify as Australian, while 40.4% claim English ancestry. Other common roots include Irish (17.4%), Scottish (11.9%), and German (5.5%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.2% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national average of 27.7%. About 90.8% of the population was born in Australia, with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 6.4%.
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 Mount Arthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12758/mount-arthur/topic/ancestry-heritage