5.2% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lake Lonsdale · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lake Lonsdale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 5.2% of people in Lake Lonsdale were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than most other parts of the country. Most residents trace their roots back to British and Irish origins.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries, at 41.4% and 39.7% respectively. Irish and Scottish heritage are also significant, accounting for 17.2% and 15.5% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%. This is reflected in the birth data, where 87.9% of residents were 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 Lake Lonsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21437/lake-lonsdale/topic/ancestry-heritage