15.5% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Pennyroyal · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Pennyroyal
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Pennyroyal, where nearly half of the residents claim this background. While the area has a higher proportion of overseas-born people than most similar places, it remains far below the national figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English heritage leads at 48.2%, followed by Australian (27.3%), Irish (17.3%), and Scottish (14.5%) backgrounds. A small number of residents also identify as Dutch at 3.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 15.5% of people were born overseas, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the 27.7% national figure. Most residents were born in Australia (71.8%), with England (6.4%) and China (2.7%) being the next most common birthplaces.
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 Pennyroyal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22055/pennyroyal/topic/ancestry-heritage