13.2% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Salisbury West · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Salisbury West
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 13.2% of people in Salisbury West were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less diverse in terms of birthplace than the rest of the country. Most residents here identify with traditional British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 47.4%, followed by Australian at 26.3% and Irish at 18.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 73.7% of people born in Australia, the overseas-born population is far below the Victorian figure by 17 percentage points.
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 Salisbury West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22227/salisbury-west/topic/ancestry-heritage