33.0% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
South Plantations · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in South Plantations
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A much higher share of people in South Plantations were born overseas compared to the national figure. This is a diverse area where Vietnamese ancestry is the most common, accounting for 27.1% of the population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Vietnamese is the most common ancestry at 27.1%, followed closely by Australian at 26.1% and English at 25.5%. Italian and Chinese backgrounds also make up significant portions of the community.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 33% of residents were born overseas, which is well above the Australian average of 27.7% and among the highest for similar areas. This is reflected in the birthplaces, with 20.2% of people born in Vietnam.
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 South Plantations [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51382/south-plantations/topic/ancestry-heritage