59.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lake Powell · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost 60% of people in Lake Powell were born overseas, a figure that is among the highest for similar areas. This creates a diverse community where the typical resident is more likely to have been born abroad than in the rest of Victoria or Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 15.1%, followed by Australian at 10.5% and Chinese at 9.3%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 59.3% of people born overseas, Lake Powell is far above the state figure of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%. Only 37.2% of the population was born in Australia.
59.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Lake Powell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21441/lake-powell/topic/ancestry-heritage