33.8% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Pascoe Vale (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Diverse cultural roots shape daily life in Pascoe Vale, where over a third of the population was born overseas. This heritage is most visible in the strong Italian and English influence across the community.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are most common, each claimed by about 21% of residents, followed by Italian at 15.9%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Overseas-born residents make up 33.8% of the population, which is well above the Victorian figure of 30.0% and the national average of 27.7%. This level of diversity has barely changed since 2016, with the top birthplaces being Australia, Italy, Nepal, India and England.
33.8% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Pascoe Vale (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26603/pascoe-vale/topic/ancestry-heritage