10.6% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Old Plains · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Old Plains
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English heritage is the most common ancestry in Old Plains, where 42.6% of people claim these roots. The area is predominantly Australian-born and has a much lower proportion of overseas-born residents than the rest of the state or country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 42.6%, followed by Australian at 27.7% and Scottish at 17.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national rate of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (68.1%), with New Zealand as the next most common birthplace at 10.6%.
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 Old Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51178/old-plains/topic/ancestry-heritage