11.3% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Seymour · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Seymour
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 11.3% of people in Seymour were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. This low overseas birth rate is mirrored in the local ancestry, where nearly 80% of residents identify as Australian or English.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian (39.3%) and English (38.9%) are the most common ancestries. Other significant groups include Irish (12.1%), Scottish (10.8%) and German (4.4%) descendants.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas fell 1.5 points since 2011 to 11.3%, a figure far below the 30% seen across Victoria. Most residents were born in Australia (79.3%), followed by smaller groups from China, England, the Philippines and New Zealand.
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 Seymour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214019/seymour/topic/ancestry-heritage