61.0% ▲ +25.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 57.6%
- 2021: 61.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Box Hill · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Box Hill
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than six in ten people in Box Hill were born overseas, putting it among the highest areas for overseas birth in the country. This high level of migration is reflected in the local ancestry, where nearly half of the residents identify as Chinese.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese ancestry is the most common at 46.6%, followed by English at 15.7%, Australian at 11.3%, Irish at 5.1% and Indian at 4.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is 61.0%, which is far above the 30.0% seen in Victoria and the 27.7% national figure. This is driven by a large Chinese population, with 29.5% of residents born there, while 31.7% were born in Australia.
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 Box Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20314/box-hill/topic/ancestry-heritage