11.2% ▲ +46.2%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dubbo · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Dubbo
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 Dubbo, where 39.1% of residents claim this background. The area is predominantly Australian-born, though the proportion of people born overseas has grown over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 35.7%, followed by Irish at 10.7% and Scottish at 8.1%. German ancestry accounts for 3.1% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 11.2% of people in Dubbo were born overseas, a figure that has risen 3.5 percentage points since 2011. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%, with 80.4% 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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112006/dubbo/topic/ancestry-heritage