50.9% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 45.9%
- 2016: 50.3%
- 2021: 50.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Canning · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Canning
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of the people in Canning were born overseas, a figure that has risen by 5 percentage points since 2011. This reflects a population far more diverse than the rest of Western Australia and the nation. English and Australian ancestries are most common, but Chinese and Indian roots are also very prominent.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English (24.6%) and Australian (18.7%) are the most common ancestries. These are followed closely by Chinese (18.5%) and Indian (8.2%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Over half of the residents (50.9%) were born overseas, which is far above the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%). While 45.3% were born in Australia, the largest overseas birthplaces are India (7.9%) and China (4.8%).
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 Canning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51330/canning/topic/ancestry-heritage