43.2% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Liverpool · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Liverpool
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A growing number of overseas-born residents have shaped Liverpool, with the proportion of people born abroad rising to 43.2% since 2011. This makes the area far more diverse than the rest of the state and country. The community is a mix of many backgrounds, with Australian, English, Indian, Italian and Vietnamese being the most common ancestries.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 15.6% and English at 12.2%, followed by Indian (6.0%), Italian (5.7%) and Vietnamese (5.5%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
More than four in ten people here were born overseas, a figure that is far above the national average of 27.7%. This proportion rose 3.4 points since 2011, and while 51.2% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are Vietnam, India, the Philippines and New Zealand.
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 Liverpool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14900/liverpool/topic/ancestry-heritage