39.7% ▲ +24.2%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wantirna · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wantirna
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 40% of people in Wantirna were born overseas, a figure far above the national average. This creates a diverse community where Chinese and English ancestries are almost equally common, each representing about a quarter of the population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Chinese ancestries are the most common at 24.1% and 23.4%, followed closely by Australian ancestry at 22.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 39.7% of residents born overseas, Wantirna is well above the Victorian average of 30%. While 57.3% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are China at 9.5% and India at 4.3%.
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 Wantirna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22685/wantirna/topic/ancestry-heritage