7.3% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Beermullah · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of people in Beermullah claim English ancestry, making it the most common heritage in the area. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a very small proportion of residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the state.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 52.3%, followed by Australian at 32.1% and Scottish at 15.6%. Irish and Dutch backgrounds are also present, making up 8.3% and 3.7% of the population.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.3% of residents were born overseas, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. About 80.7% of the population was born in Australia, with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 3.7%.
7.3% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Beermullah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50100/beermullah/topic/ancestry-heritage