46.3% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wheelers Hill · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wheelers Hill
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly half of all residents in Wheelers Hill were born overseas, a figure far above the national average. This creates a diverse community where Chinese ancestry is the most common, accounting for 24.8% of the population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese is the most common ancestry at 24.8%, followed by English at 19.1% and Australian at 16.4%. Other significant groups include Italian and Greek backgrounds, each making up over 6% of the area.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 46.3% of people here were born outside Australia, which is far above the 30% seen across Victoria. This high level of overseas birth is reflected in the data, with 11.8% of residents born in China.
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 Wheelers Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22766/wheelers-hill/topic/ancestry-heritage