8.7% ▼ -33.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Myrtle Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Myrtle Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Myrtle Creek, where 43.5% of people claim this background. The area is predominantly born in Australia, with a very small proportion of the population having moved here from overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the next most common at 32.6%, followed by Irish (7.6%), Scottish (4.3%), and German (3.3%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Just 8.7% of people here were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. Three quarters of the population were born in Australia, while 4.3% were born in 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 Myrtle Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12890/myrtle-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage