7.0% ▼ -36.6%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Minnie Water · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Minnie Water
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very few residents were born overseas in Minnie Water, making it much less diverse than most other areas. Only 7% of people here were born outside Australia, with the vast majority of the community tracing their roots back to English and Australian ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 50.3%, followed by Australian at 36.9% and Irish and Scottish both at 15.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7% of people were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and fell 4 percentage points since 2011. The vast majority, 86.6%, were 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 Minnie Water [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122087/minnie-water/topic/ancestry-heritage