12.8% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Couridjah · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Couridjah
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 12.8% of people in Couridjah were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less diverse than the state and country averages. Most residents identify with English or Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries here, accounting for 41.8% and 38.3% of residents respectively. Irish, Scottish and Italian ancestries follow at much lower rates.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 12.8% of people were born overseas—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the New South Wales average of 29.3%. This proportion has fallen by 2.8 percentage points since 2011, with 81.6% 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 Couridjah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122042/couridjah/topic/ancestry-heritage