8.0% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Rokeby · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Rokeby
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very high proportion of residents in Rokeby claim Australian or English ancestry. Most people here were born in Australia, making the area far less diverse in its origins than the rest of the state or country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of the population identify as Australian, followed by English at 45.1%, Scottish at 13.1%, and Irish at 11.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.0% of people were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian rate of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of the population was born in Australia.
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 Rokeby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22190/rokeby/topic/ancestry-heritage