5.8% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Fairbank · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Fairbank
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 5.8% of people in Fairbank were born overseas, making it a community with a very high proportion of Australian-born residents. Most people here identify with traditional roots, with Australian and English ancestries being the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most frequent at 67.3%, followed by English at 30.8%, and Irish at 11.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The share of people born overseas is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Victorian figure of 30.0%. About 80.8% 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 Fairbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20900/fairbank/topic/ancestry-heritage