14.4% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
New Lambton Heights · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in New Lambton Heights
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian roots dominate the local identity of New Lambton Heights, where 81.5% of people claim one of these two ancestries. While the area has a strong British heritage, it remains much less diverse in birthplaces than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents identify as English (43.1%) or Australian (38.4%), followed by Irish (16.4%) and Scottish (14.2%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 14.4% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. Most of the population was born in Australia (83.8%), with England (3.3%) and New Zealand (1.5%) being the most common overseas birthplaces.
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 New Lambton Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12952/new-lambton-heights/topic/ancestry-heritage