11.3% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Murrindindi · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Murrindindi
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Murrindindi than in the rest of Victoria, with only 11.3% coming from another country. This gap is a defining feature of the area, where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 43.4%, followed by Australian at 39.0%, Scottish at 12.7% and Irish at 12.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.3% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. This has barely changed since 2011, and most people here were born in Australia (79.1%) or England (3.7%).
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 Murrindindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25620/murrindindi/topic/ancestry-heritage