7.0% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Greta · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Greta
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Greta than in most similar areas. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with very few residents arriving from other countries compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim Australian ancestry (57%) or English (46.5%), followed by Irish at 11.6% and Scottish at 10.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national 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 Greta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21108/greta/topic/ancestry-heritage