12.8% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
French Island · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in French Island
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 12.8% of people on French Island were born overseas, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. This is a very low proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of Victoria and Australia, where the figures are much higher.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 45.4% and Australian at 43.3%. Other notable groups include Irish, Scottish and Italian backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most residents were born in Australia (70.9%), while England (5.7%) and South Africa (4.3%) are the most common overseas birthplaces. This low rate of overseas birth is far below the 30% seen across Victoria and the 27.7% national figure.
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 French Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20952/french-island/topic/ancestry-heritage