3.3% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Benair · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Benair
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost half of the people in Benair identify as Australian by ancestry. This small community is overwhelmingly born in Australia and has a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 45%, followed by English at 29.8%, Scottish at 14.6%, and German at 8.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.3% of residents were born overseas, a figure far below the national average of 27.7%. This means Benair has a much lower share of overseas-born people than most other areas.
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 Benair [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30229/benair/topic/ancestry-heritage