9.3% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mountain Bay · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mountain Bay
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 Mountain Bay compared to the rest of the state. Only 9.3% of residents were born outside Australia, which is a huge gap compared to the 30% seen across Victoria. This makes the area much less diverse in its birthplaces than most other Australian regions.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 46.3%, followed by Australian at 33.3% and Irish at 18.5%. Scottish and Greek ancestries also feature, accounting for 13% and 11.1% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of people here were born in Australia (79.6%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 14.8%. This low overseas birth rate 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 Mountain Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21817/mountain-bay/topic/ancestry-heritage