12.0% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tumbulgum · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tumbulgum
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common roots in Tumbulgum, with 44.5% and 42.7% of residents claiming these ties. Most people here were born in Australia, and the area has far fewer overseas-born residents than the state or national averages.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian backgrounds are the most frequent, followed by Irish at 15.2% and Scottish at 12.3%. German ancestry is also present for 4.5% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 12% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 29.3%. While this is much lower than the state and national figures, the proportion of overseas-born residents rose slightly by 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
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 Tumbulgum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122141/tumbulgum/topic/ancestry-heritage