12.6% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Newcastle · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Newcastle
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Deeply rooted English and Australian heritages shape the daily life of Newcastle, where 82.5% of people claim one or both as their ancestry. While the area remains overwhelmingly Australian-born, there is a growing trend of people moving here from overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 42.2% and Australian at 40.3%, followed by Scottish and Irish roots, which both sit around 12%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Overseas-born residents make up 12.6% of the population, a figure that rose 1.8 points since 2011. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102004/newcastle/topic/ancestry-heritage