82.6% of people were born in australia. of persons living in warracknabeal, 1.5% (36 persons) were aboriginal and/or torres strait islander people. this is higher than for the state of victoria (0.8%) but lower than the national average (2.8%). the most common ancestries in warracknabeal were australian 33.0%, english 30.6%, scottish 7.7%, irish 7.2% and german 7.1%.