4.8% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Paraparap · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Paraparap
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 4.8% of people in Paraparap were born overseas, which is much lower than in most similar areas. This makes the community far less internationally diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia. Most residents here identify with traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian is the most common ancestry at 47.9%, followed by English at 37.7%, Scottish at 19.2%, and Irish at 10.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%. Almost 90% of people in Paraparap were born in Australia, with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 3.6%.
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 Paraparap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22035/paraparap/topic/ancestry-heritage