4.5% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Kamarooka · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Kamarooka
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Kamarooka compared to most other areas. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a small minority of residents hailing from other countries. This creates a population with very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim Australian ancestry at 60.7%, followed by English at 23.6%. Other common ancestral links include Irish and Scottish at 6.7% each, and German at 4.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.5% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national rate of 27.7%. This is much lower than most other areas, with 92.1% of the population born in Australia.
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 Kamarooka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21289/kamarooka/topic/ancestry-heritage