56.9% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 50.1%
- 2016: 55.3%
- 2021: 56.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Fairfield · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Fairfield
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More people have moved to Fairfield from overseas since 2011, with 56.9% of residents now born in another country. This creates a diverse community where Vietnamese and Chinese ancestries are more common than Australian or English ones.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Vietnamese ancestry is the most common at 17.6%, followed by Chinese at 12.0%, while Australian and English ancestries make up 9.1% and 7.5% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents has risen 6.8 percentage points since 2011 to 56.9%, a figure far above the national 27.7%. While 36.7% were born in Australia, 14.5% were born in Vietnam.
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10029/fairfield/topic/ancestry-heritage