5.1% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Caveat · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Caveat
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 5.1% of people in Caveat were born overseas, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas. This small proportion of overseas-born residents reflects a community with very deep Australian roots, where nearly three quarters of the population was born here.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries in the area, making up 39.0% and 33.9% of residents respectively, followed by Scottish and Irish backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. In total, 74.6% of the population was 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 Caveat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20525/caveat/topic/ancestry-heritage