24.0% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 54% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Curtin · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Curtin
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian and English heritage are the most common backgrounds in Curtin, where 36.5% of people claim Australian ancestry. This suburb has a strong connection to these roots, with Irish and Scottish ancestry also making up significant shares of the population.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most frequent ancestral backgrounds are Australian (36.5%) and English (35.4%), followed by Irish at 15.6% and Scottish at 13.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Around 24% of people in Curtin were born overseas, which is well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia. This proportion has risen by 1.7 percentage points since 2011, with the most common birthplaces being Australia (73.4%), England (3.8%) and India (1.8%).
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 Curtin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801091100/curtin/topic/ancestry-heritage