2.9% ▲ +504.7%
Lower than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ngaanyatjarraku · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ngaanyatjarraku
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive gap exists between Ngaanyatjarraku and the rest of the country, with only 2.9% of people born overseas. This is far below the figures for Western Australia and Australia, making it one of the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents in the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported are Australian at 4.3% and English at 4.1%, followed by Irish and Scottish.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Very few people were born outside Australia, though this figure rose 2.5 percentage points since 2011 to reach 2.9%. Nearly 90% of the population was born in Australia, with New Zealand 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 Ngaanyatjarraku [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA56620/ngaanyatjarraku/topic/ancestry-heritage