6.9% ▲ +9.3%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Grenfell · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Grenfell
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Grenfell than in most similar areas. The town is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a heritage shaped largely by English and Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries here, making up 47.2% and 43.1% of the population respectively. Irish and Scottish heritage also feature, at 12.1% and 9.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.9% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the New South Wales (29.3%) and national (27.7%) averages. This has barely changed since 2011, when the figure was 6.3%.
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 Grenfell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115069/grenfell/topic/ancestry-heritage