16.9% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Upwey · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Upwey
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Upwey, where 46% of residents claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with far fewer overseas-born residents than the state or national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the population identifies as English, while 38.9% identify as Australian. Irish, Scottish, and German ancestries also feature, making up 14.5%, 12% and 5.4% of the community respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 16.9% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 30%. Most residents were born in Australia (80.7%), followed by England at 5.2% and New Zealand at 1.5%.
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 Upwey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22620/upwey/topic/ancestry-heritage