24.0% ▲ +31.1%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Pittwater · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Pittwater
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Pittwater, where 45.4% of people claim this heritage. The area has a strong British and Irish influence, while the proportion of people born overseas has grown since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people in the area identify with English (45.4%), Australian (33.9%), or Irish (13.0%) roots, followed by Scottish at 12.2% and German at 4.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The 24% of residents born overseas is well below the national figure of 27.7% and the state's 29.3%, though this number rose 5.7 percentage points since 2011. Most residents were born in Australia (72.6%) or England (8.1%).
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 Pittwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10067/pittwater/topic/ancestry-heritage