13.3% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lort River · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lort River
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A small number of overseas-born residents live in Lort River, with 13.3% of the population born outside Australia. Most people here identify with traditional roots, dominated by Australian and English ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of the people in Lort River claim Australian ancestry (56.7%), followed by English ancestry at 30.0%. Irish and Scottish roots are also present, making up 6.7% and 5.0% of the area.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 13.3% of residents were born overseas, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is far below the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%), with 75.0% of the population 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 Lort River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50861/lort-river/topic/ancestry-heritage