6.5% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Weering · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Weering
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 6.5% of people in Weering were born overseas, making it an area with a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than most other parts of the country. This small figure reflects a community where the vast majority of people were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of residents claim Australian ancestry, followed by English (21.0%), Scottish (16.1%), German (8.1%), and Irish (6.5%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
At 6.5%, the share of people born overseas is far below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia, accounting for 83.9% of the population.
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 Weering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22737/weering/topic/ancestry-heritage