43.5% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.5%
- 2016: 43.0%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Yagoona · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Yagoona
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than four in ten people living in Yagoona were born overseas, creating a community with a very strong international presence. This high level of migration is most visible in the local ancestry, where Vietnamese roots are the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Vietnamese is the most common ancestry at 15.3%, followed by Australian at 12.4% and English at 9.3%. Other notable groups include Chinese and Greek residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 43.5%, the proportion of overseas-born residents is among the highest for similar areas and far above the national figure of 27.7%. This is driven largely by the 12.1% of people born in Vietnam, followed by those from China, New Zealand and the Philippines.
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 Yagoona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14471/yagoona/topic/ancestry-heritage