9.8% —
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wangaratta · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wangaratta
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of British and Irish heritage shapes the identity of Wangaratta, where the vast majority of residents claim roots in these regions. Very few people here were born outside Australia, making the town's population much more locally born than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 42.6%, followed closely by Australian at 39.4%. Irish (14.2%) and Scottish (11.5%) roots are also prominent, while 7.2% of residents claim Italian ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.8% of people in Wangaratta were born overseas, which is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national average of 27.7%. This proportion has fallen by 2.8 percentage points since 2016, with 84.3% of the population now born in Australia.
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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213016/wangaratta/topic/ancestry-heritage