12.9% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Picton · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of traditional roots defines Picton, where over half of the residents claim English ancestry. Most people here were born in Australia, making it far less diverse in birthplace than the state or national average.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 51.6%, followed by Australian at 32.3% and Irish and Italian both at 19.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 12.9% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%.
12.9% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Picton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51238/picton/topic/ancestry-heritage