8.9% —
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Barrow Island · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Barrow Island
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Fewer people were born overseas in Barrow Island than in most similar areas. This sparsely populated location has a very small overseas-born population, sitting far below both the state and national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common, accounting for 11.1% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.9% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national average of 27.7%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Barrow Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50076/barrow-island/topic/ancestry-heritage