9.4% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Warragamba · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Warragamba
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Traditional roots run deep in Warragamba, where almost half the people identify as Australian by ancestry. This is a community with very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state, reflecting a population largely rooted in long-standing local and British heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 47% and English at 40.6%, followed by Irish, Scottish and Italian backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.4% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, with small numbers from England and New Zealand.
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 Warragamba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14176/warragamba/topic/ancestry-heritage