19.1% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Geelong West · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Geelong West
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Geelong West, where 38.7% of residents claim this root. This is a place with strong ties to the British Isles, though it has a much smaller proportion of overseas-born residents than the state or national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most frequent, making up 38.7% and 31.3% of the population. Irish and Scottish roots follow at 16.5% and 13.3%, while 7.2% of people identify as Italian.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Roughly one in five people here were born overseas, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, at 19.1%, this is far below Victoria's 30.0% and well below the Australian figure of 27.7%.
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 Geelong West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20974/geelong-west/topic/ancestry-heritage