11.2% ▼ -22.4%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Longwarry · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Longwarry
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly half of people in Longwarry claim Australian ancestry, marking it as the most common background in the area. The community is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with a small minority of residents arriving from overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 41.0%, followed by Irish (9.9%) and Scottish (9.0%) backgrounds. A smaller group of residents, 3.6%, identify as Dutch.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.2% of people were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Victorian figure of 30.0%. This share has fallen 3.2 percentage points since 2011, with the vast majority of the population (80.6%) 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 Longwarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215048/longwarry/topic/ancestry-heritage