0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Hunterston · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost everyone in Hunterston was born in Australia, making it a place with very little international diversity. The community's roots are overwhelmingly British and Irish, with three quarters of residents claiming Australian ancestry.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is most common at 75%, followed by English (40%), Irish (30%), and Scottish (15%) roots.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
No one in the area was born overseas, a figure far below the Victorian average of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Hunterston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21217/hunterston/topic/ancestry-heritage