3.8% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wild Dog Valley · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wild Dog Valley
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Wild Dog Valley than in most similar areas. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, which is reflected in the fact that over half of residents claim Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half the population identifies as Australian, while 24.4% claim English ancestry. Irish and Dutch backgrounds are also present, each accounting for 3.8% of the area.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.8% of residents were born overseas, which 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 75.6% 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 Wild Dog Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22783/wild-dog-valley/topic/ancestry-heritage