St Albans
Ancestry
The three largest ancestries in St Albans in 2016 were Vietnamese, English and Australian.
Ancestry defines the cultural association and ethnic background of an individual going back three generations. Ancestry is a good measure of the total size of cultural groups in St Albans regardless of where they were born or what language they speak.
Ancestry data, should be combined with data on Birthplace, Language Spoken at Home and Religion for a more complete picture of St Albans's ethnic characteristics.
Please note that the "Australian Aboriginal" and "Torres Strait Islander" categories in this topic are not directly comparable from 2021 to previous years, due to a change in the wording of the question. In 2021, these options were marked boxes on the question rather than write-in options. The "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Origin" question is still considered a more reliable count for this group, and can be found on the Population summary page.
Please note: Due to changes in ABS rules around perturbation and additivity of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of ancestry groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS. For more information see notes on data confidentiality.
Derived from the Census question:
'What is the person's ancestry?'
Multi-response
Total population
| Ancestry - Totals | ||||||||
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| St Albans - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2001 | Change | |||||
| Ancestry totals | Number | % | Albion % | Number | % | Albion % | 2001 to 2016 | |
| Not stated | 3,225 | 8.0 | 9.1 | 2,836 | 7.9 | 12.2 | +389 | 37500 |
| Total responses | 40,088 | -- | -- | 35,697 | -- | -- | +4,391 | 37502 |
| Total people | 37,303 | -- | -- | 35,165 | -- | -- | +2,138 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2001 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Ancestry - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| St Albans - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2001 | Change | |||||
| Ancestry | Number | % | Albion % | Number | % | Albion % | 2001 to 2016 | |
 Vietnamese | 9,181 | 24.6 | 6.9 | 37123 | 4,999 | 14.2 | 6.1 | +4,182 |
| English | 2,963 | 7.9 | 16.5 | 37033 | 2,688 | 7.6 | 18.2 | +275 |
| Australian | 2,883 | 7.7 | 15.8 | 37010 | 3,445 | 9.8 | 22.0 | -562 |
| Chinese | 2,621 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 37024 | 2,007 | 5.7 | 4.9 | +614 |
| Indian | 2,363 | 6.3 | 8.7 | 37046 | 360 | 1.0 | 1.5 | +2,003 |
| Maltese | 2,090 | 5.6 | 3.4 | 37064 | 3,770 | 10.7 | 5.5 | -1,680 |
| Filipino | 1,241 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 37038 | 1,060 | 3.0 | 3.5 | +181 |
| Croatian | 1,082 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 37027 | 1,996 | 5.7 | 1.7 | -914 |
| Greek | 1,043 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 37042 | 1,627 | 4.6 | 2.5 | -584 |
| Italian | 1,000 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 37051 | 1,517 | 4.3 | 4.5 | -517 |
| Macedonian | 807 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 37062 | 1,443 | 4.1 | 1.3 | -636 |
| Irish | 669 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 37050 | 744 | 2.1 | 6.1 | -75 |
| Punjabi | 667 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 37095 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +667 |
| Serbian | 667 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 37101 | 1,331 | 3.8 | 2.5 | -664 |
| Samoan | 655 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 37099 | 132 | 0.4 | 0.1 | +523 |
| German | 645 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 37041 | 946 | 2.7 | 2.4 | -301 |
| Pakistani | 527 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 37089 | 64 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +463 |
| Other Indian subcontinent | 480 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 37078 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +470 |
| Polish | 454 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 37093 | 930 | 2.6 | 3.4 | -476 |
| Inadequately Described | 444 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 37045 | 287 | 0.8 | 1.3 | +157 |
| Scottish | 432 | 1.2 | 4.2 | 37100 | 196 | 0.6 | 2.1 | +236 |
| Bosnian | 355 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 37016 | 616 | 1.8 | 0.2 | -261 |
| Lebanese | 344 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 37060 | 508 | 1.4 | 0.7 | -164 |
| Spanish | 262 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 37109 | 330 | 0.9 | 1.0 | -68 |
| Turkish | 261 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 37120 | 478 | 1.4 | 1.1 | -217 |
| Burmese peoples | 258 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 37019 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +255 |
| Ethiopian | 233 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 37036 | 32 | 0.1 | 0.4 | +201 |
| Sinhalese/Sri Lankan | 229 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 370131 | 189 | 0.5 | 0.6 | +40 |
| Maori | 205 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 37065 | 143 | 0.4 | 0.6 | +62 |
| Albanian | 187 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 37003 | 352 | 1.0 | 0.4 | -165 |
| Central and West African | 183 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 37022 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +140 |
| Egyptian | 181 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 37032 | 198 | 0.6 | 0.2 | -17 |
| Tongan | 177 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 37118 | 20 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +157 |
| Nepalese | 176 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 37069 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +173 |
| Cypriot | 150 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 37028 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ukrainian | 146 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 37121 | 251 | 0.7 | 0.6 | -105 |
| Slovene | 144 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 37106 | 217 | 0.6 | 0.1 | -73 |
| New Zealander | 122 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 37070 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +79 |
| Chilean | 117 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 37023 | 161 | 0.5 | 0.7 | -44 |
| Dutch | 116 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 37031 | 227 | 0.6 | 0.5 | -111 |
| Hungarian | 116 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 37044 | 214 | 0.6 | 0.3 | -98 |
| Thai | 116 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 37116 | 29 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +87 |
| Iranian | 107 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 37048 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +94 |
| Other Central Asian | 99 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 37076 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +99 |
| Somali | 91 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 37107 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +79 |
| Portuguese | 91 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 37094 | 92 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -1 |
| Eritrean | 88 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 37034 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +88 |
| Fijian | 86 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 37037 | 19 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +67 |
| Salvadoran | 80 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 37098 | 103 | 0.3 | 0.4 | -23 |
| Romanian | 78 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 37096 | 126 | 0.4 | 0.5 | -48 |
| Other Southern and East African | 78 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 37087 | 26 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +52 |
| Russian | 77 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 37097 | 125 | 0.4 | 0.1 | -48 |
| Slovak | 70 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 37105 | 113 | 0.3 | 0.0 | -43 |
| Lao | 69 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 37058 | 85 | 0.2 | 0.0 | -16 |
| Bengali/Bangladeshi | 68 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 370130 | 22 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +46 |
| Timorese | 66 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 37117 | 81 | 0.2 | 0.0 | -15 |
| Other Oceanian (inc. Melanesia & Micronesia) | 66 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 37083 | 21 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +45 |
| Austrian | 66 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 37013 | 129 | 0.4 | 0.1 | -63 |
| Afghan | 66 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 37001 | 21 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +45 |
| Assyrian/Chaldean | 65 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 37009 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +65 |
| French | 61 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 37040 | 63 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -2 |
| Cook Islander | 51 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37026 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +35 |
| Syrian | 50 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37113 | 81 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -31 |
| Tamil | 49 | 0.1 | 2.6 | 37115 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +39 |
| Malay | 45 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37063 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +31 |
| Iraqi | 42 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37049 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.2 | +29 |
| Indonesian | 42 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 37047 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +26 |
| Bulgarian | 41 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37018 | 23 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +18 |
| Arab not further described | 40 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37006 | 54 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -14 |
| Other Polynesian | 39 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37084 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +39 |
| Australian Aboriginal | 38 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37011 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +38 |
| Anglo-Indian | 37 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37005 | 22 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +15 |
| Other Middle-Eastern peoples | 37 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37079 | 29 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +8 |
| Other Southern/South East European | 35 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37088 | 126 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -91 |
| Mauritian | 34 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37066 | 18 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +16 |
| Other North American | 30 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37080 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +16 |
| Kurdish | 30 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 37057 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +26 |
| Papua New Guinean | 30 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37091 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +23 |
| Uruguayan | 29 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37122 | 28 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +1 |
| American | 26 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37004 | 19 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +7 |
| Welsh | 24 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 37124 | 35 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -11 |
| Argentinian | 23 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37007 | 44 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -21 |
| Czech | 23 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37029 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +7 |
| Finnish | 23 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37039 | 39 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -16 |
| Other Central American | 22 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37075 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +15 |
| Colombian | 21 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 37025 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Japanese | 21 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 37052 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +18 |
| Khmer (Cambodian) | 21 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37055 | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +6 |
| Korean | 20 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 37056 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +10 |
| Armenian | 19 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 37008 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +7 |
| Latvian | 18 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37059 | 30 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -12 |
| Other Eastern European | 16 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37077 | 26 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -10 |
| Other South American | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37085 | 25 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -10 |
| Other South-East Asian | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37086 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +3 |
| Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37061 | 32 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -17 |
| South African | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37108 | 21 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -6 |
| Zimbabwean | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37125 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +8 |
| Peruvian | 13 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37092 | 20 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -7 |
| Palestinian | 13 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37090 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -3 |
| Danish | 13 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 37030 | 18 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -5 |
| Taiwanese | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37114 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +12 |
| Other Northern Asian | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37082 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +11 |
| Norwegian | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37071 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +7 |
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Excludes ancestries with fewer than 10 responses (multi-response).
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the ancestry responses of the population in St Albans in 2016 shows that the top five ancestries nominated were:
- Vietnamese (9,181 people or 24.6%)
- English (2,963 people or 7.9%)
- Australian (2,883 people or 7.7%)
- Chinese (2,621 people or 7.0%)
- Indian (2,363 people or 6.3%)
In combination these five ancestries account for 20,011 responses in total, or 53.64% of all responses.
The major differences between the ancestries of the population in St Albans and Albion were:
- A larger percentage of people with Vietnamese ancestry (24.6% compared to 6.9%)
- A smaller percentage of people with English ancestry (7.9% compared to 16.5%)
- A smaller percentage of people with Australian ancestry (7.7% compared to 15.8%)
- A smaller percentage of people with Irish ancestry (1.8% compared to 5.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the reported ancestries of the population in this area between 2001 and 2016 were:
- Vietnamese (+4,182 persons)
- Indian (+2,003 persons)
- Maltese (-1,680 persons)
- Croatian (-914 persons)