0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Springfield · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Springfield, where 55.9% of people claim this background. The area is almost entirely made up of people born in Australia, reflecting a very strong connection to local roots.
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of residents identify as Australian, followed by 41.2% with English and 8.8% with Irish ancestry.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
No one in Springfield was born overseas, a figure that is far below the national average of 27.7%. Consequently, 97.1% of the population was born in Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Springfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13640/springfield/topic/ancestry-heritage