7.0% ▼ -53.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Numurkah · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Numurkah
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of traditional roots defines Numurkah, where the vast majority of people claim Australian or English ancestry. Very few residents were born overseas, making this a community with deep ties to its own soil and a small number of recent arrivals.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are almost equally common here, each claimed by about 42% of the population. Irish and Scottish roots are also prominent, with 12.5% and 10.1% of residents respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7% of people in Numurkah were born overseas, a figure far below the Victorian average of 30%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 15.3% of the population had been born in another country.
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 Numurkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215065/numurkah/topic/ancestry-heritage