7.5% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Delegate · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Delegate
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Few areas are as locally rooted as Delegate, where the proportion of people born overseas is lower than most similar places. A huge majority of the community was born in Australia, with the remaining residents tracing their roots largely to the British Isles.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries, making up 44.8% and 37.3% of the population. Irish, Scottish, and German roots are also prominent, accounting for 14.4%, 10.4%, and 7.0% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.5% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%. This represents a small decrease from 2011, when the proportion was 9.0%.
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 Delegate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122050/delegate/topic/ancestry-heritage