5.6% ▼ -76.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Roebourne · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Roebourne
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common heritage in Roebourne, where 8.3% of people claim this background. The community is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with very few residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English (8.3%) and Australian (7.9%) are the two most frequent ancestries, followed by Scottish at 3.3%, German at 1.6%, and Irish at 1.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 5.6% of residents were born overseas, a figure far below the national rate of 27.7% and the Western Australian figure of 32.2%. Most people were born in Australia (87.8%), while New Zealand (1.7%) and England (1.4%) are the most common other birthplaces.
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 Roebourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51305/roebourne/topic/ancestry-heritage