4.9% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Digby · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Digby
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 4.9% of people in Digby were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. This makes it an area where the vast majority of residents were born in Australia. The local heritage is predominantly British and Irish.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people in Digby claim Australian ancestry at 55.7%, followed by English at 29.5%. Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestries each make up around 9% to 11% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With a very low overseas-born population, 84.4% of residents were born in Australia. England is the most common overseas birthplace at 2.5%, while other countries like India, China and New Zealand have no residents born there.
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 Digby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20753/digby/topic/ancestry-heritage