19.8% ▲ +104.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wood Wood · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wood Wood
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 8 points fewer than the national average of people were born overseas in Wood Wood, where only 19.8% of residents arrived from another country. While the area has a much higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar places, it remains far below the Victorian figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common, each accounting for 35.2% of the population. Italian heritage is also significant at 13.2%, followed by Scottish and Chinese ancestries at 9.9% each.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most of the community was born in Australia (70.3%), with Italy being the most common overseas birthplace at 4.4%. This overseas-born population of 19.8% is far below the 30% seen across Victoria.
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 Wood Wood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22832/wood-wood/topic/ancestry-heritage