5.6% ▲ +65.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wyalong · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wyalong
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 5.6% of people in Wyalong were born overseas, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas. The town is overwhelmingly Australian-born and maintains strong ties to its British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of residents claim Australian ancestry (46.6%), followed closely by English (42.1%), Irish (10.5%), and Scottish (8.4%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 86% of people born in Australia, the overseas-born population is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national average of 27.7%. The most common overseas birthplaces are New Zealand, the Philippines, and India.
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 Wyalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14449/wyalong/topic/ancestry-heritage