10.8% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Waggrakine · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Waggrakine
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Waggrakine compared to the rest of the state. Only 10.8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is a huge gap compared to the Western Australian figure of 32.2%. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplaces than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 41.7% and 37.5% of the population respectively. Scottish and Irish backgrounds also feature, at 7.7% and 7.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 78.1% of people were born in Australia, those from overseas most often come from England, the Philippines, and New Zealand. The overseas birth rate is far below the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Waggrakine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51500/waggrakine/topic/ancestry-heritage