5.9% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Woodburn · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Woodburn
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Much lower proportions of overseas-born residents live in Woodburn compared to most similar areas. This is a community with deep roots in Australia, where over 80% of people were born here and the vast majority identify with traditional British and Irish heritages.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian (43.7%) and English (41.6%), followed by Scottish (13.6%) and Irish (11.0%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.9% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national average of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (80.5%), with small numbers from England (1.9%) and New Zealand (1.2%).
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 Woodburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14397/woodburn/topic/ancestry-heritage