24.0% ▲ +81.3%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Diggers Rest · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Diggers Rest
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Diggers Rest, where 31.8% of people claim this background. The area has seen a significant shift in its makeup, with the proportion of people born overseas climbing by 11 percentage points since 2011.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the second most common at 27.2%, followed by Irish (8.4%) and Italian (7.7%) backgrounds. Indian ancestry is also prominent, accounting for 8.7% of residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Nearly one in four people (24.0%) were born overseas, which is among the highest for similar areas, though well below the national figure of 27.7%. India is the most common overseas birthplace at 7.6%, followed by the Philippines at 2.9%.
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 Diggers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214007/diggers-rest/topic/ancestry-heritage