15.6% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Shoreham · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Shoreham
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 Shoreham, where over half the residents claim these roots. This heritage anchors a community that is much more likely to be born in Australia than the typical Victorian or Australian resident.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the population identifies as English, followed by Australian (32.5%), Scottish (15.2%) and Irish (12.5%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 15.6% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is far below the national average of 27.7%. While this is higher than most similar areas, about 77.9% of residents were 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 Shoreham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22279/shoreham/topic/ancestry-heritage