7.1% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wickepin · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wickepin
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Deeply rooted European origins shape daily life in Wickepin, where 87.5% of residents claim Australian or English ancestry. This heritage is reflected in a community that is far less diverse than the rest of the state, with very few people born outside Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 46.1% and English at 41.4%. Other notable groups include Scottish (9.7%), Irish (9.6%), and Italian (4.6%) descendants.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.1% of people here were born overseas, a figure that fell 1.2 percentage points since 2011. This is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national rate of 27.7%.
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 Wickepin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59100/wickepin/topic/ancestry-heritage