7.8% ▼ -39.7%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Maffra · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Maffra
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Maffra than in most similar areas, with only 7.8% of the population born abroad. This makes the town much less diverse than the rest of the state, where nearly a third of people were born outside Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian and English, both at 44.4%, followed by Irish at 11.8% and Scottish at 11.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.8% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the national 27.7% and has fallen 5.1 points since 2011. Most people here were born in Australia (86.3%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 2.2%.
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 Maffra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215051/maffra/topic/ancestry-heritage