19.6% —
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wallan · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wallan
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly one in five people in Wallan were born overseas, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. While the number of overseas-born residents has risen sharply since 2016, the community remains more Australian-born than the state and national averages.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 35.4% and English at 32.7%, followed by Irish, Scottish, and Italian backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
People born overseas make up 19.6% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose by 9.2 percentage points since 2016, with India being the most common overseas birthplace at 4.8%.
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 Wallan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213015/wallan/topic/ancestry-heritage