24.4% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mordialloc - Parkdale · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mordialloc - Parkdale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Roughly three quarters of people in Mordialloc - Parkdale were born in Australia. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplaces than the Victorian and national averages. English and Australian ancestries remain the most common backgrounds here.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 38.1%, followed by Australian at 32.1% and Irish at 14.3%. Scottish and Italian backgrounds also make up significant shares of the community.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 24.4% of residents were born overseas, a figure well below the Victorian average of 30.0%. While this is lower than most other areas, the proportion of overseas-born people has risen by 2.3 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 Mordialloc - Parkdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/208031193/mordialloc-parkdale/topic/ancestry-heritage