7.1% ▲ +4.1%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Beechwood · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Beechwood
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Beechwood (L), where 47.8% of residents claim these roots. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born and has a very small proportion of people from overseas backgrounds.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most frequent, each making up nearly half the population, followed by Irish (12.6%) and Scottish (10.9%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.1% of people were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion has barely changed since 2011, with 89.5% of the community 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 Beechwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121004/beechwood/topic/ancestry-heritage