7.5% ▼ -59.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sea Lake · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Sea Lake
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Sea Lake than in most similar areas. Only 7.5% of residents were born abroad, a figure that has fallen by 11 points since 2011. This makes the town much less diverse in birthplace than the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 42.7% and 41.1% of the population respectively, followed by Irish at 12.5% and Scottish at 11.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the Victorian figure of 30% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (84.5%), with the smallest groups coming from South Africa, England, Nepal 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 Sea Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221063/sea-lake/topic/ancestry-heritage