3.0% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wadderin · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wadderin
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Wadderin than in most similar areas. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with a strong heritage tied to the British Isles.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 56.0%, followed by Australian at 32.0% and Irish at 10.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.0% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%). This is much lower than most areas, with 86.0% of the population 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 Wadderin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51495/wadderin/topic/ancestry-heritage