8.0% ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Clarendon · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Clarendon
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Clarendon compared to the rest of the state. Only 8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is much lower than the Victorian average of 30%. This creates a community with very strong ties to traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 44.2%, followed by Australian (27%), Irish (17.8%), and Scottish (16%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 76.1% of people in Clarendon were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplace is England at 6.7%. This figure is far below the national average of 27.7% for those born abroad.
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 Clarendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20564/clarendon/topic/ancestry-heritage