24.2% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
East Fremantle · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in East Fremantle
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A slight drop in the share of overseas-born residents has occurred in East Fremantle, where 24.2% of people were born outside Australia. This makes the area much more diverse than most similar places, even though the figure is well below the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 45.3%, followed by Australian at 32.6% and Irish at 14.6%. Other significant groups include Scottish and Italian ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 24.2% of residents were born overseas—a figure that fell 1.1 percentage points since 2011—this is well below the 32.2% for Western Australia. Most people here were born in Australia (71.3%), with England (8.7%) as the most common overseas birthplace.
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 East Fremantle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53150/east-fremantle/topic/ancestry-heritage