5.6% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Tenindewa · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Tenindewa
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A far lower proportion of people were born overseas in Tenindewa compared to the rest of the country. Only 5.6% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This makes the area much less diverse in its origins than most other parts of Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim Australian ancestry at 63%, followed by English at 44.4% and Scottish at 18.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The overseas-born population is much lower than most areas, sitting at 5.6%, which is 27 percentage points below the Western Australian average. This is reflected in the fact that 98.1% of people here were born in Australia.
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 Tenindewa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51441/tenindewa/topic/ancestry-heritage