8.2% ▲ +33.3%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Purnim · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Purnim
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Few overseas-born residents live in Purnim compared to most other areas. This is a community where 86.6% of people were born in Australia, and the vast majority of residents claim roots in the British Isles.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the people here identify as Australian, followed by those with English (30.8%), Irish (18.5%), and Scottish (12.7%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.2% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and 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 Purnim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22127/purnim/topic/ancestry-heritage