8.6% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Namban · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of the people in Namban claim Australian ancestry, making it the most common ancestral group. The community is largely born in Australia, with a much smaller proportion of residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the state.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most frequent at 51.4%, followed by English at 28.6% and Irish at 20.0%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%.
8.6% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Namban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51075/namban/topic/ancestry-heritage