6.7% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Scotts Brook · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Scotts Brook
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Deeply rooted British and Australian heritage defines the identity of Scotts Brook, where over 80% of the population was born in Australia. This is a community with very few overseas arrivals, resulting in a resident group that is far more Australian-born than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian and English, both at 42.7%, followed by Irish at 15.7% and Scottish at 13.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.7% of residents were born overseas, a figure that is far below the Western Australian average of 32.2%. Most people here were born in Australia (80.9%), while England is the most common overseas birthplace at 4.5%.
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 Scotts Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51335/scotts-brook/topic/ancestry-heritage