8.9% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Muswellbrook · Urban Area
Ancestry & Birthplace in Muswellbrook
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Muswellbrook, where 44.2% of the population claims these roots. This is a place with very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the country, and the share of people born abroad has fallen slightly since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly 44% of people identify as Australian and 38.2% as English. Other common ancestries include Irish at 9%, Scottish at 8.5%, and German at 3.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.9% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (84.7%), with New Zealand (1.5%) and England (1%) as the next most common birthplaces.
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 Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1023/muswellbrook/topic/ancestry-heritage