3.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Womboota · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A tiny fraction of people born overseas live in Womboota, with only 3.3% born abroad. This is far below the national figure of 27.7% and represents a huge gap compared to the rest of the state. Most residents here share deep roots in Australia, the UK, and Ireland.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common at 45.6%, followed by English (24.4%), Scottish (23.3%), and Irish (14.4%) roots. Italian ancestry is also present at 4.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Very few people here were born outside Australia, at 3.3%, which is much lower than most similar areas. This is 26 percentage points below the New South Wales average, with 82.2% of the population born in Australia.
3.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Womboota [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14385/womboota/topic/ancestry-heritage