8.5% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wilga · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wilga
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Wilga, where 63.4% of people claim this background. This sparsely populated area has very few overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state and country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the second most common ancestry at 23.9%, followed by Irish at 7.0%, and Italian and Dutch both at 4.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.5% of people were born overseas, a figure that is far below both the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and 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 Wilga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51606/wilga/topic/ancestry-heritage