22.5% —
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lara (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lara (Western Victoria)
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Roughly 71.5% of people in Lara were born in Australia, making it a community with a significantly lower proportion of overseas-born residents than the state or national average. While the area is predominantly Australian and British in origin, it has seen a small increase in its migrant population over the last few years.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 32.3% and English at 31.7%. Other significant groups include Irish at 9.5%, Scottish at 8.8%, and Italian at 4.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 22.5% of residents were born overseas, which is well below the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose slightly by 1.8 percentage points since 2016, with the most common birthplaces after Australia being England, India, and the Philippines.
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 Lara (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24308/lara/topic/ancestry-heritage