8.4% ▲ +9.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wattle Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wattle Ponds
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 8.4% of people in Wattle Ponds were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than most other parts of Australia. Most residents identify with traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the people here claim Australian ancestry, with English (46.9%), Irish (10.9%) and Scottish (10.3%) being the next most common.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. The vast majority of the population was born in Australia, with small numbers arriving from New Zealand and England.
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 Wattle Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14211/wattle-ponds/topic/ancestry-heritage