10.0% ▲ +57.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Golden Square · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Golden Square
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English is the most common ancestry in Golden Square, where 42.9% of people claim these roots. The area is predominantly born in Australia, with only 10.0% of residents arriving from overseas. This makes the community far less diverse in birthplace than the rest of the state and nation.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Strong British and colonial roots are evident here, with Australian (40.5%), Irish (13.5%), and Scottish (12.3%) ancestries also featuring prominently.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.0% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the 30.0% seen in Victoria and the 27.7% national average. Australia is the birthplace for 85.3% of the population, followed by smaller groups from England, India, the Philippines and New Zealand.
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 Golden Square [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21058/golden-square/topic/ancestry-heritage