Editing New South Wales (section)

===Ancestry and immigration===
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|+ Country of Birth (2021){{NoteTag|Only the top 12 most common birthplaces are listed in this table.}}<ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au">{{cite web |url = https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/1 |website = Australian Bureau of Statistics |title = 2021 New South Wales, Census Community Profile |access-date = 2 August 2022 |archive-date = 9 August 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220809010331/https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles/2021/1 |url-status = live }}</ref>
! Birthplace{{NoteTag|In accordance with the [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] source, [[England]], [[Scotland]], [[Mainland China]] and the Special Administrative Regions of [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]] are listed separately.}} !! Population
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| {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Australia]]{{NoteTag|Does not include [[Norfolk Island]] or other Australian External Territories.}} ||5,277,497 
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| {{flagicon|China}} [[China]] ||247,595 <!-- Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau SARs are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| {{flagicon|England}} [[England]] ||231,385 <!-- England and Scotland are listed separately as per the source. Do not combine -->
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| {{flagicon|India}} [[India]] ||208,962
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| {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]] ||118,527
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| {{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Philippines]] ||106,930
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| {{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Vietnam]] ||97,995
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| {{flagicon|Nepal}} [[Nepal]] ||64,946
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| {{flagicon|Lebanon}} [[Lebanon]] ||63,293
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| {{flagicon|Iraq}} [[Iraq]] ||55,353
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| {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[South Korea]] ||53,046
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| {{flagicon|South Africa}} [[South Africa]] ||42,347
|}

At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{NoteTag|The percentages include thoese who did not answer the question or who gave an unclear answer.}}<ref name="quickstats-au">{{cite web |url = https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/1 |title = 2021 New South Wales, Census All persons QuickStats |website = Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date = 12 September 2022 |archive-date = 12 September 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220912121233/https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/1 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au" /> <!-- Only ancestries with >1% are listed. Respondents were able to provide up to two responses, these two responses were combined, Therefore the sum of all ancestry responses for New South Wales will not be equal to the total number of people. -->
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* [[English Australians|English]] (29.8%)
* [[Australians|Australian]] (28.6%){{NoteTag|The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the [[Anglo-Celtic Australian|Anglo-Celtic]] group.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182!OpenDocument |title = Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article) |publisher = [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] |date = January 1995 |access-date = 22 June 2019 |archive-date = 20 April 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160420205113/http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182%21OpenDocument |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
* [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (9.1%)
* [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (7.7%)
* [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (7.2%)
* [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (3.7%)
* [[Indian Australians|Indian]] (3.2%)
* [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (3.0%){{NoteTag|Includes those identifying as having [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]] ancestry. Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}
* [[German Australians|German]] (3.0%)
* [[Lebanese Australians|Lebanese]] (2.2%)
* [[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (1.9%)
* [[Greek Australians|Greek]] (1.8%)
* [[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese]] (1.5%)
* [[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (1.1%)
* [[Maltese Australians|Maltese]] (1.0%)
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At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, there were 2,794,666 people living in New South Wales that were born overseas, accounting for 34.6% of the population. Only 43.7% of the population had both parents born in Australia.{{NoteTag|6.0% of people did not state where their parents were born.}}<ref name="quickstats-au" />

3.4% of the population, or 278,043 people, identified as [[Indigenous Australians]] ([[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islanders]]) in 2021.{{NoteTag|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}<ref name="quickstats-au" />