6.2% ▼ -36.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Meerschaum Vale · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Meerschaum Vale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very small number of overseas-born residents live in Meerschaum Vale, where the vast majority of people were born in Australia. This reflects a population with deep local roots and an ancestry that is predominantly Australian and English.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the people here claim Australian ancestry (47.8%) or English ancestry (47.3%), followed by Irish at 21.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.2% of the population were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. Most people in the area were born in Australia (87.6%), with England (3.2%) and South Africa (0.8%) being the next most common birthplaces.
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 Meerschaum Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12566/meerschaum-vale/topic/ancestry-heritage