13.6% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Badger Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Badger Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English is the most common ancestry in Badger Creek, where 45.3% of people claim this heritage. The area has a strong connection to British and Australian roots, with these two groups making up the vast majority of the population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Along with the 45.3% of English descendants, 42.4% of people identify as Australian. Other common ancestries include Scottish at 12.8%, Irish at 11.7% and German at 7.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 13.6% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Victorian average of 30.0%. Most people here were born in Australia (81.7%), followed by England at 5.5%.
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 Badger Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20097/badger-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage