12.7% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Beaconsfield Upper · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More people in Beaconsfield Upper now claim an Australian ancestry than in previous years. This shift is reflected in the local birthplaces, where 81.5% of the population was born in Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian at 45.1% and English at 38.7%, followed by Irish, Scottish and Italian origins.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 12.7% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%.
12.7% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Beaconsfield Upper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20176/beaconsfield-upper/topic/ancestry-heritage