19.6% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Albany · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Albany
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 20% of people in Albany were born overseas, which is well below the national figure. This puts the area in a unique position, as it has a much higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar areas, despite trailing the state and national averages.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English (47%) and Australian (39.1%) are the most common ancestries here, followed by Scottish, Irish and German roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 19.6% of residents were born overseas, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. While this is far below Western Australia's 32.2%, most people here were born in Australia (75.4%), followed by England (7.0%) and the Philippines (1.9%).
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 Albany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL512001/albany/topic/ancestry-heritage