9.1% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Macs Cove · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of local roots defines Macs Cove, where nearly half of the people identify as Australian by ancestry. This deep connection to the land is reflected in the low number of overseas-born residents, with only 9.1% of the population born abroad.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 47.9% and English at 30.6%, followed by Irish at 9.9% and Italian at 5.8%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.1% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Victoria figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most of the population was born in Australia (72.7%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 4.1%.
9.1% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Macs Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21567/macs-cove/topic/ancestry-heritage