9.5% ▼ -33.4%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Singleton · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Singleton
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Singleton than in most similar areas. This is a community with deep roots in Australia and the British Isles, where nearly 86% of the population was born within the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents identify as Australian (45.3%) or English (42.2%), followed by Irish (10.5%) and Scottish (10.1%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Just 9.5% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. This proportion has fallen by 4.8 percentage points since 2011, and most residents were born in Australia (85.8%).
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 Singleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113014/singleton/topic/ancestry-heritage