7.7% ▼ -6.3%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Buffalo · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Buffalo
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Buffalo compared to the rest of the state, with only 7.7% of the population arriving from another country. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplaces than both Victoria and Australia as a whole.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim English (38.7%) or Australian (36.6%) ancestry, followed by Scottish (13.0%) and Irish (12.3%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.7% of people were born overseas, which is far below the 30% seen in Victoria and 27.7% across Australia. The vast majority were born in Australia (79.2%), with England (2.5%) as the most common overseas birthplace.
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 Buffalo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20375/buffalo/topic/ancestry-heritage