62.8% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.8%
- 2016: 63.7%
- 2021: 62.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Clayton South · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Clayton South
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Chinese ancestry is the most common background in Clayton South, where 20.1% of people identify with it. This is a highly diverse area where 62.8% of residents were born overseas, a figure far above the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Chinese (20.1%) and Indian (12.3%), followed by Greek at 10.4% and English at 10.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
More than six in ten people were born overseas, which is far above the 30.0% seen in Victoria. India is the most common birth country for overseas residents at 14.9%, while 33.0% of the total 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 Clayton South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20570/clayton-south/topic/ancestry-heritage