5.3% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Samaria · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Samaria
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Samaria, where 45.6% of people claim this heritage. The area is very homogenous, with the vast majority of residents born in Australia and very few arrivals from overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Along with 38.6% of people identifying as Australian, the most common ancestries here are Irish at 17.5% and Scottish at 8.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.3% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. This is much lower than most other areas, with 78.9% of the population 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 Samaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22228/samaria/topic/ancestry-heritage