40.2% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Rose Bay · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Rose Bay
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Four out of ten people in Rose Bay were born overseas, making it one of the most internationally diverse areas of its kind. This global mix is seen in the wide variety of backgrounds residents claim, with English and Australian ancestries being the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 28.3%, followed by Australian at 20.4%, Irish at 9.2%, Scottish at 6.8% and Italian at 5.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Born overseas residents make up 40.2% of the population, a figure far above the 29.3% seen in New South Wales and the 27.7% national average. While 54.8% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are South Africa at 9.3% and England at 5.6%.
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 Rose Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13412/rose-bay/topic/ancestry-heritage