4.3% ▼ -67.5%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Toongabbie · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Toongabbie
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common background in Toongabbie (L), where 44.6% of residents claim these roots. The area is very homogeneous, with a small proportion of people born overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian (44.6%) and English (37.8%), followed by Irish (13.1%), Scottish (8.2%) and German (4.1%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.3% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 30% and has fallen 8.9 percentage points since 2011. Most residents were born in Australia (85.6%), with small numbers from England (1.4%) and New Zealand (0.6%).
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 Toongabbie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221072/toongabbie/topic/ancestry-heritage