6.5% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Beacon · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Beacon
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Over half of the residents in Beacon identify as Australian by ancestry, making the area far more likely to have these roots than most other regions. The community is predominantly born in Australia, with very few people moving here from overseas in recent years.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common, making up 50.4% and 43.9% of the population respectively. Irish ancestry is also present for 11.4% of residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.5% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of the population, 80.5%, were born in Australia.
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 Beacon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50085/beacon/topic/ancestry-heritage