8.6% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wellesley · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wellesley
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 8.6% of people in Wellesley were born overseas, meaning the vast majority of residents are Australian-born. This makes the area far less diverse in birthplaces than the rest of the state or the nation.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents identify as Australian (51.4%) or English (40.0%), followed by Scottish (14.3%) and Dutch (11.4%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the state's 32.2%. About 91.4% of residents were born in Australia.
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 Wellesley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51559/wellesley/topic/ancestry-heritage