9.9% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Anglesea · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Anglesea
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Anglesea, where 43.3% of people claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia and has a very low proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries at 43.3% and 39.3% respectively, followed by Irish at 17.9% and Scottish at 15.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.9% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the 30% seen in Victoria and 27.7% nationally. Most residents were born in Australia (83.5%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 2.7%.
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 Anglesea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20046/anglesea/topic/ancestry-heritage