5.9% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mountain View · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mountain View
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Hardly any change has occurred in the ancestral makeup of Mountain View over the last decade. The area remains overwhelmingly rooted in British and Irish heritage, with nearly half of all residents claiming Australian, English, Irish, or Scottish descent.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common at 31.8% and 29.4%, followed by Irish (16.5%), Scottish (15.3%), and Dutch (12.9%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Very few people here were born overseas, at just 5.9%. This is far below the 30% seen across Victoria and the 27.7% national figure, with 92.9% of the population born in Australia.
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 View [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21818/mountain-view/topic/ancestry-heritage