11.1% ▲ +23.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ballarat East · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ballarat East
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 Ballarat East, where 43.6% of people claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born and has a very small proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most frequent, making up 43.6% and 37.8% of the population. Other common backgrounds include Irish at 16.9% and Scottish at 12.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.1% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Victoria (30.0%) and Australia (27.7%). Most residents were born in Australia (83.5%), followed by England at 2.6%.
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 Ballarat East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20112/ballarat-east/topic/ancestry-heritage