5.6% ▼ -60.6%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
The Rock · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in The Rock
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A sharp drop in the overseas-born population defines the recent shift in The Rock, where only 5.6% of residents were born outside Australia. This low figure reflects a community with very deep local roots and a strong ties to British and Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the people here identify as Australian, while 40.5% claim English ancestry. Irish and Scottish roots are also common, making up 14.8% and 11.6% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.6% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. This proportion has fallen by 8.5 percentage points since 2011, with 88.9% of the population now 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 The Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121107/the-rock/topic/ancestry-heritage