8.3% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Dowerin · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Dowerin
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A small increase in overseas arrivals has seen the proportion of people born outside Australia in Dowerin rise to 8.3% since 2011. The area remains overwhelmingly Australian-born, with the vast majority of residents claiming Australian or English ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of residents identify as Australian, followed by English (45.0%), Scottish (9.8%), and Irish (6.4%) ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.3% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%). Most people here were born in Australia (81.7%), with England as the most common overseas birthplace at 3.5%.
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 Dowerin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52940/dowerin/topic/ancestry-heritage