4.3% ▼ -41.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mossiface · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mossiface
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower share of people were born overseas in Mossiface compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.3% of residents were born abroad, which is much lower than most other areas and far below the Victorian figure of 30%. This makes the area stand out as being predominantly Australian-born.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries in the area are Australian at 44.9% and English at 44.2%, followed by Scottish at 14.5% and Irish at 8.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 77.5% of people in Mossiface were born in Australia. This level of overseas birth is far below the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Mossiface [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21770/mossiface/topic/ancestry-heritage