41.6% —
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan)
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Box Hill than in most other areas, with 41.6% of residents arriving from another country. This multicultural mix is reflected in the ancestry data, where Chinese and English backgrounds are the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Chinese ancestry is the most frequent at 28.6%, followed by English at 25.1% and Australian at 21.0%. Irish and Scottish heritage also feature, at 9.0% and 8.0% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents rose 3.4 percentage points since 2016 to reach 41.6%, which is far above the national figure of 27.7%. While 54.6% were born in Australia, the largest overseas group is from China at 15.1%.
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 Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21001/box-hill/topic/ancestry-heritage