45.2% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 90% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 53.9%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Calwell · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Calwell
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Diverse cultural backgrounds shape daily life in Calwell, where nearly half the population was born overseas. This makes the area far more multicultural than the average Australian suburb, with a strong mix of European and Asian heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian (15.1%) and English (12.1%), followed by Indian (7.8%) and Italian (7.3%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Nearly half of the people here were born overseas at 45.2%, which is far above the national figure of 27.7%. While this is much higher than most areas, the proportion has fallen by 5.4 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 Calwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED205/calwell/topic/ancestry-heritage