6.0% ▲ +30.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Patchewollock · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Patchewollock
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of traditional heritage defines Patchewollock, where more than half of the community claims English ancestry. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born, making it much less diverse than the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 50.3% and 45.0% of the population respectively, while 27.5% of residents identify as Scottish.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.0% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Victoria figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (83.2%), followed by England at 2.7% and New Zealand at 2.0%.
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 Patchewollock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22045/patchewollock/topic/ancestry-heritage