9.3% —
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Polwarth (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Polwarth (Western Victoria)
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Polwarth than in the rest of Victoria, with only 9.3% born abroad. This makes it one of the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents in the region. Most people here identify with British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 42% and English at 41.1%, followed by Irish at 14.6% and Scottish at 13%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.3% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose slightly from 8.3% in 2016, with most of those born abroad coming from England.
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 Polwarth (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26708/polwarth/topic/ancestry-heritage