43.4% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 43.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Carnegie · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Carnegie
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far higher share of people were born overseas in Carnegie than in the rest of Victoria. Around 43.4% of residents were born outside Australia, which is 13 percentage points above the state average and 16 points above the national figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English, Australian, Chinese, Irish, and Indian are the most common ancestries here, with English at 22.9% and Australian at 20.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
More than four in ten people were born overseas, among the highest for similar areas. The most common birth countries after Australia are India at 9.2% and China at 6.2%.
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 Carnegie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20498/carnegie/topic/ancestry-heritage