8.2% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bushy Park · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Bushy Park
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very few overseas births shape the daily life of Bushy Park, where 77.6% of residents were born in Australia. This is a community with deep ancestral ties to the British Isles, which is reflected in the overwhelming number of people claiming Australian, English, or Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
British heritage is very common here, with 38.8% of people claiming English ancestry and 34.7% claiming Irish ancestry, alongside 40.8% who identify as Australian.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.2% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Bushy Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20429/bushy-park/topic/ancestry-heritage