15.6% ▲ +71.1%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Hotham · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A growing number of overseas-born residents now live in Mount Hotham, where 15.6% of people were born outside Australia. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains far below the figures for Victoria and the rest of the country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 38.3%, followed by Australian at 26.6% and Irish at 16.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas rose 6.5 percentage points since 2011 to reach 15.6%. Despite this growth, the figure is far below the national rate of 27.7%, with 68% of residents born in Australia.
15.6% ▲ +71.1%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Hotham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222058/mount-hotham/topic/ancestry-heritage