7.0% ▲ —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ngaanyatjarra-Giles · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Ngaanyatjarra-Giles, making up 18.6% of the population. This remote area has a very small proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the country. Most people here were born in Australia.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most frequent ancestry at 18.6%, followed by Australian at 14.0% and Scottish at 9.3%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.0% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. Over half the population, 53.5%, was born in Australia.
7.0% ▲ —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Ngaanyatjarra-Giles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51112/ngaanyatjarra-giles/topic/ancestry-heritage