23.5% ▼ -72.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 86.3%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Torndirrup · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Torndirrup
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A mix of overseas backgrounds shapes the daily life of Torndirrup, where nearly one in four residents was born abroad. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, the proportion of overseas-born people remains well below the state and national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 10.4% and English at 7.8%, followed by Scottish, Italian, and Dutch backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 23.5% of people here were born overseas, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 32.2%. Most residents were born in Australia (75.7%), with the next most common birthplaces being New Zealand, Vietnam, and China.
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 Torndirrup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51463/torndirrup/topic/ancestry-heritage