43.3% ▲ +170.6%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Druitt · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Druitt
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive shift in diversity has occurred in Mount Druitt, where the share of overseas-born residents jumped 27 percentage points since 2011. Now, 43.3% of people were born in another country, making the area far more multicultural than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 18.5% and English at 15.6%, followed by Filipino at 14.1% and Indian at 7.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 43.3% of residents born overseas, Mount Druitt is far above the Australian figure of 27.7%. Half the population was born in Australia, while the next most common birthplaces are the Philippines at 10.1% and India at 4.6%.
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 Mount Druitt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10054/mount-druitt/topic/ancestry-heritage