11.4% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cancanning · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cancanning
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Roughly half the population of Cancanning identifies as English, making it a place where traditional ties are very strong. Most residents were born in Australia, and the area has a much lower proportion of overseas-born people than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the dominant ancestries here, accounting for 68.6% and 54.3% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.4% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%). The vast majority were born in Australia (85.7%), while England is the most common overseas birthplace at 11.4%.
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 Cancanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50241/cancanning/topic/ancestry-heritage