7.8% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wermatong · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wermatong
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower share of people were born overseas in Wermatong than in the rest of the state. Only 7.8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is about 20 percentage points lower than the national figure. This makes the area much less diverse in its birthplace than most other parts of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 45.1% and 41.2% of the population respectively. Scottish ancestry follows at 5.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, accounting for 76.5% of the population. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% for those born overseas.
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 Wermatong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14248/wermatong/topic/ancestry-heritage