15.2% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Laverton · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Laverton
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower share of people were born overseas in Laverton compared to the state or national average. Only 15.2% of the population was born outside Australia, which is well below the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 20.1%, followed by Australian at 13.9%, Scottish at 4.7%, Irish at 4.5%, and German at 2.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 15.2% of residents were born overseas—a figure that is higher than most similar areas—this is far below the Western Australian average of 32.2%. This proportion has fallen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011, with nearly half the population born in Australia (49.4%) and 6.5% born in New Zealand.
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 Laverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA54970/laverton/topic/ancestry-heritage