5.1% ▲ +14.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Croydon · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Croydon
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very small number of overseas-born residents now live in Croydon, which remains far more Australian-born than the rest of the country. Only 5.1% of the population was born outside Australia, a figure that sits well below both state and national levels.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 39.1% and 22.3% of the people respectively. Other notable ancestral backgrounds include Irish at 5.1%, and Dutch and Filipino at 2.3% each.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.1% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the 22.7% in Queensland and 27.7% across Australia. Most people here were born in Australia (78.1%), followed by small numbers from the Philippines (1.9%) and New Zealand (1.4%).
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 Croydon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30760/croydon/topic/ancestry-heritage