4.7% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Arcadia · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Arcadia
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far smaller proportion of people were born overseas in Arcadia compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.7% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0%. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplaces than most other Australian regions.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the people here claim English ancestry at 46.7%, followed by Australian at 41.5% and Irish at 25.0%. A smaller number of residents identify as Scottish (9.9%) or Filipino (1.9%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, accounting for 92.0% of the population. Among those born abroad, the Philippines is the most common birthplace at 2.8%, followed by England at 2.4%.
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 Arcadia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20056/arcadia/topic/ancestry-heritage