1.4% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Meru · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Meru
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Meru than in most similar areas. The vast majority of the population is born in Australia, with only 1.4% of residents arriving from another country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries listed are Australian and English, each accounting for 4.6% of the population, while Chinese ancestry represents 1.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Australia is the birthplace for 95.9% of residents, which means the proportion of overseas-born people is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Meru [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50940/meru/topic/ancestry-heritage