10.8% ▲ +41.0%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Goulburn · Urban Area
Ancestry & Birthplace in Goulburn
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common in Goulburn, with both accounting for about 41% of the population. This heritage shapes a community where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia, though the proportion of overseas-born people has grown slightly in recent years.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 41.4% and English at 41.1%, followed by Irish (13.1%), Scottish (9.9%), and German (3.3%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.8% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose 3.1 percentage points since 2011, with 83.3% of residents born in Australia.
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 Goulburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1014/goulburn/topic/ancestry-heritage