8.8% ▲ +26.7%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Orbost · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Orbost
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 8.8% of people in Orbost were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes it a community with very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the country. Most residents identify with traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 40.5% and 39.1% of the population. Scottish and Irish roots are also prominent at 10.1% and 9.1% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With a far lower proportion of overseas-born residents than the Victorian average, 78.4% of the population was born in Australia. Of those born abroad, England is the most common birthplace at 2.7%.
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 Orbost [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22014/orbost/topic/ancestry-heritage