10.3% ▲ +24.5%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bathurst · Urban Area
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bathurst
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Bathurst compared to most similar areas. Only 10.3% of residents were born outside Australia, making it a community with a much stronger local-born population than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 42.0% and 40.9% of the population. Irish, Scottish and German roots follow as the next most frequent.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Just 10.3% of people in Bathurst were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has risen slightly by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
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 Bathurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1005/bathurst/topic/ancestry-heritage