6.8% ▼ -5.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Magpie · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Few people born overseas live in Magpie compared to most other areas. This small community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with only 6.8% of residents arriving from another country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of residents claim Australian ancestry, followed closely by English at 41.6% and Irish at 14.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia, accounting for 90.5% of the population.
6.8% ▼ -5.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Magpie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21573/magpie/topic/ancestry-heritage