8.9% —
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sailors Falls · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Sailors Falls
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 8.9% of people in Sailors Falls were born overseas, making it a community with very few international arrivals. Most residents trace their roots back to Australia, England and Ireland, reflecting a population with deep ties to traditional colonial origins.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian (40.5%), English (25.3%) and Irish (20.3%), followed by Italian and Dutch at 6.3% each.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Born in Australia, 73.4% of residents are local, while England is the most common overseas birthplace at 5.1%. This overseas-born population is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% 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 Sailors Falls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22223/sailors-falls/topic/ancestry-heritage