9.6% ▼ -64.8%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Nyah · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Nyah
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common background in Nyah (L), shared by 45.6% of residents. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia and has a very low proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 38.9%, followed by Scottish (11.5%), Irish (9.3%) and German (5.2%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 27.4% of the population was born outside 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 Nyah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222066/nyah/topic/ancestry-heritage