4.4% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Fairyland · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Half of the people in Fairyland identify as Australian by ancestry. This local area is predominantly born in Australia, with very few residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian at 50% and English at 35.6%, followed by Irish at 14.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.4% of people were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and much lower than most other areas. Most residents were born in Australia (83.3%), with New Zealand (5.6%) as the next most common birthplace.
4.4% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Fairyland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31017/fairyland/topic/ancestry-heritage