5.1% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wyndham · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wyndham
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 5.1% of people in Wyndham were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the town's population much more Australian-born than most other parts of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English are the most common ancestries here, making up 18.2% and 15.6% of the population respectively. Scottish and Irish ancestries follow at 4.5% and 4.1%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. About 77.2% of residents were born in Australia, while 1.5% came from England.
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 Wyndham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51656/wyndham/topic/ancestry-heritage