5.7% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bowmans Forest · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bowmans Forest
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
The makeup of Bowmans Forest has remained very steady since 2011. It is a community with deep roots in Australia and the UK, where more than half of the residents claim English ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 54.7%, followed by Australian at 36.8% and Irish at 21.7%. Other common backgrounds include Scottish and Italian, both at 8.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.7% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. This means Bowmans Forest has a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than most other areas.
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 Bowmans Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20312/bowmans-forest/topic/ancestry-heritage