5.8% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Melrose · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Melrose
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 5.8% of people in Melrose were born overseas, making it a community with a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than most other areas. The vast majority of the population was born in Australia, and the area has a very strong British and European ancestral heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 47.1%, followed by Australian at 41.2% and Scottish at 20.8%. Other significant ancestral groups include German at 11.4% and Irish at 7.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The percentage of people born overseas is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national figure of 27.7%. About 87.1% of the population was born in Australia, with New Zealand (2.3%) and England (0.9%) as the next most common birthplaces.
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 Melrose [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40856/melrose/topic/ancestry-heritage