4.5% ▲ +45.9%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Muscle Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Muscle Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A steady pattern of traditional roots persists in Muscle Creek, where very few residents were born outside Australia. This local stability is seen in a population that remains overwhelmingly Australian-born and shares deep ties to British and Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents identify with Australian (53.4%) or English (47.9%) roots, followed by Irish (10.9%) and Scottish (8.3%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.5% of people here were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 29.3%. While 93% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are the Philippines and England.
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 Muscle Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12878/muscle-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage