9.0% ▲ +83.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Batesford · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Batesford
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 9% of people in Batesford were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much more locally born than most other parts of Australia. Most residents claim a British or Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries at 41.5% and 36.2%. Irish and Scottish roots follow at 14.8% and 11.3%, while 7.6% of people identify as Italian.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The number of people born overseas rose 4.1 percentage points since 2011 to reach 9.0%. Despite this increase, the figure remains far below the 30% seen across Victoria, with 88.6% of the population 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 Batesford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221004/batesford/topic/ancestry-heritage