3.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Glasgow · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Glasgow
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Mount Glasgow, where nearly half of residents claim these roots. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born and has a very small proportion of people born overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of residents identify as English, followed by Australian (27.2%), Irish (18.5%), and Scottish (13.0%) ancestries. Dutch heritage is also present for 7.6% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.3% of people here were born overseas, a figure far below the Victorian average of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most people were born in Australia (70.7%), with New Zealand as the next most common birthplace at 5.4%.
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 Glasgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21797/mount-glasgow/topic/ancestry-heritage