20.0% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wymah · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wymah
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A much smaller share of people were born overseas in Wymah compared to the rest of the state. While 20% of residents were born abroad, this is well below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. Most people here identify with British and Australian roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the residents claim Australian ancestry (53.3%) or English ancestry (50.0%), with another 10% identifying as Scottish.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 27.7%. Most of these residents were born in Australia (76.7%) or England (16.7%).
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 Wymah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14460/wymah/topic/ancestry-heritage