12.0% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Electrona · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Fewer than 16% of people in Electrona (L) claim an ancestry other than English or Australian. This makes the area very traditional in its roots, with the vast majority of residents tracing their family history back to the British Isles.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 47.6% and 45.1% of the population respectively, followed by Irish at 11.5%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 12% of people here were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Australian average and has fallen 5.3 percentage points since 2011. The vast majority (84.4%) were born in Australia.
12.0% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Electrona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621011/electrona/topic/ancestry-heritage