5.6% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Qualeup · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Strongly traditional roots define Qualeup, where 40.3% of residents identify as Australian and 31.9% as English. This is a very settled area where the vast majority of people were born in Australia, reflecting a community with deep local and ancestral ties.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English, Scottish, and Irish ancestries are common here, though Greek ancestry is also notably present at 12.5%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. This is much lower than most similar areas, with 84.7% of the population born in Australia.
5.6% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Qualeup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51269/qualeup/topic/ancestry-heritage