51.1% ▲ +21.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 48.3%
- 2021: 51.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Telopea · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Telopea
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Over half of all residents in Telopea were born overseas, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a highly diverse community where 51.1% of people grew up outside Australia, making it one of the most overseas-born areas at this level.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese ancestry is the most common at 29.0%, followed by English at 15.3% and Australian at 14.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The overseas-born population is far above the New South Wales figure by 22 percentage points. While 43.4% of people were born in Australia, 15.2% were born in China, with others arriving from India, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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 Telopea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13797/telopea/topic/ancestry-heritage