6.5% ▼ -49.0%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Attunga · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Attunga
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common identity in Attunga (L), where 43.6% of people claim this heritage. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with very few residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 38.8%, followed by Scottish (12.7%), Irish (7.8%) and German (6.2%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.5% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion fell 6.3 percentage points since 2011, with 87.9% of the population 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 Attunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122009/attunga/topic/ancestry-heritage