14.8% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dandaragan · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Dandaragan
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost 85% of people in Dandaragan claim Australian or English ancestry. This heritage dominates the local identity, while the proportion of residents born overseas remains very low compared to the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 42.9% and English at 42.1%, followed by Scottish (10.5%), Irish (8.4%) and German (3.2%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 14.8% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Western Australian average of 32.2%. This has barely changed since 2011, with 74.1% of the population born in Australia.
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 Dandaragan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52590/dandaragan/topic/ancestry-heritage