10.1% ▲ +24.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Coorow · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Coorow
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong Australian and English heritage continues to shape Coorow, where 81% of residents claim one of these two ancestries. This reflects a deeply rooted local identity with very few residents born overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestral backgrounds at 41.9% and 39.1%, followed by Scottish at 12.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.1% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia, with smaller groups from England, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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 Coorow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50335/coorow/topic/ancestry-heritage