10.3% ▲ +13.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sunshine · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Sunshine
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
About the same as similar areas, Sunshine (NSW) has a modest overseas-born population with 10.3% of residents born abroad. Most people here identify with traditional British and Australian roots, with English and Australian ancestries being the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most frequent, making up 44.2% and 40.4% of the population. Irish ancestry is also common at 13.3%, followed by Scottish at 10.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.3% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for New South Wales (29.3%) and Australia (27.7%). The vast majority were born in Australia (85.3%), while England and New Zealand are the most common overseas birthplaces at 2.3% each.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Sunshine
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13709/sunshine/topic/ancestry-heritage