8.6% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Eccles · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Eccles
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A steady shift in roots is evident in Mount Eccles, where a strong British legacy remains. Most residents identify with English or Australian ancestry, while the proportion of people born overseas has stayed much lower than the national figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 38.8%, followed by Australian at 25.9% and Scottish at 11.5%. Italian and Irish roots are also represented, making up 9.4% and 7.9% of the community.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.6% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the 30% seen in Victoria and the 27.7% national average. The vast majority were born in Australia, with England and South Africa as the most common overseas birthplaces.
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 Mount Eccles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21791/mount-eccles/topic/ancestry-heritage