14.9% ▲ +95.0%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Watsons Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Watsons Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English heritage is the most common ancestry in Watsons Creek, where 53.2% of people claim this background. The area is mostly made up of people born in Australia, though it has a higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar areas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of the population identifies as English, followed by Australian (38.3%), Irish (23.4%), and Scottish (19.1%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 14.9% of people were born overseas, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. Most residents were born in Australia (77.7%), while the next most common birthplaces are New Zealand, England, and the Philippines.
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 Watsons Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14206/watsons-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage