7.2% ▲ +121.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Serpentine · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Serpentine
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 7.2% of people in Serpentine were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much more homogeneous than most parts of Australia, with a strong concentration of people with English and Australian roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries, making up 44.1% and 33.8% of the population. Irish and Scottish ancestry also feature prominently at 15.3% and 12.2% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia (82.0%), which is far below the 30% seen in Victoria. England is the most common overseas birthplace at 3.6%, followed by India at 1.4%.
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 Serpentine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22261/serpentine/topic/ancestry-heritage