8.2% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wattening · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wattening
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 8.2% of people in Wattening were born overseas, which is far below the figures for both the state and the nation. This makes it a community with a very high proportion of Australian-born residents, with nearly half the population claiming Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries, making up 47.5% and 37.7% of the population respectively. Scottish and German ancestry are also present at 9.8% each.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia (85.2%), which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. England is the most common overseas birthplace at 4.9%.
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 Wattening [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51548/wattening/topic/ancestry-heritage