5.2% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Kotta · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Kotta
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 5.2% of people in Kotta were born overseas, a figure far below the Victorian and national averages. This small proportion of overseas-born residents makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than most other parts of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries here, with 51.5% and 53.7% of residents claiming these roots. Other notable ancestries include Scottish at 10.4%, Irish at 7.5%, and German at 6.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, accounting for 85.8% of the population. This explains why the proportion of people born overseas is far below the national figure of 27.7%, with England and New Zealand being the most common birthplaces outside Australia at 2.2% each.
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 Kotta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21402/kotta/topic/ancestry-heritage