51.5% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 51.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Thomastown · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Thomastown
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Diverse cultural roots shape daily life in Thomastown, where more than half of all residents were born outside Australia. This international mix is reflected in the community's strong ties to Italy, Greece, and Vietnam, making it far more multicultural than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Italian at 13.8%, followed by Australian (11.4%), English (9.6%), Greek (7.6%) and Vietnamese (6.9%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Over half of the population (51.5%) were born overseas, a figure far above the 30% seen in Victoria and the 27.7% national average. While 43.6% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are India (6.2%), Italy (5.9%), Vietnam (5.2%) and China (2.0%).
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 Thomastown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22504/thomastown/topic/ancestry-heritage