7.7% ▲ +35.2%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Rainbow · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Rainbow
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Rainbow compared to the rest of the state. Only 7.7% of the population was born outside Australia, which is 22 percentage points below the Victorian figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 45.5%, followed by Australian at 37.1% and German at 18.9%. Other common ancestries include Scottish and Irish backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia, accounting for 84.2% of the population. This is far below the national figure of 27.7% for overseas births, with small numbers of people born in England, the Philippines, and India.
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 Rainbow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22137/rainbow/topic/ancestry-heritage