5.9% ▲ +43.6%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ashford · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ashford
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage for people in Ashford (L), where 44.5% of residents claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a very small proportion of people moving here from overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the second most common at 36.4%, followed by Scottish (7.6%) and Irish (7.4%) roots. A smaller number of residents identify as having Italian ancestry (2.8%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.9% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. This share of the population rose slightly by 1.8 percentage points since 2011, though 82.4% of residents were 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 Ashford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122007/ashford/topic/ancestry-heritage