6.1% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ruthven · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ruthven
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 6.1% of people in Ruthven were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes it a community with very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the country. Most people here identify with traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the population identifies as Australian, with English (35.1%), Scottish (14.9%) and Irish (9.6%) being the next most common ancestries.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is much lower than in most areas, sitting far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. About 80.7% of residents were born in Australia.
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 Ruthven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13465/ruthven/topic/ancestry-heritage