4.8% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Yarpturk · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Yarpturk, where 55.6% of people claim this background. The area has a very small proportion of people born overseas, making it much less diverse than the rest of the state or country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half the population identifies as English, followed by Australian at 28.6% and Irish at 25.4%. Other common backgrounds include Scottish and German heritage.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.8% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30%. While 87.3% were born in Australia, India is the most common overseas birthplace at 6.3%.
4.8% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Yarpturk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22909/yarpturk/topic/ancestry-heritage