17.8% ▼ -32.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Paraburdoo · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Paraburdoo
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Overseas-born residents have fallen by 8.6 percentage points since 2011 in Paraburdoo. While the area remains more diverse than most similar places, it now has a much smaller proportion of overseas-born people than the state or national figures.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 34% and English at 30.3%, followed by Irish at 9.2%, Scottish at 8.6% and German at 3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 17.8% of people were born overseas, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the 27.7% national figure. Most residents were born in Australia (59.4%), with other common birthplaces being New Zealand, England and the Philippines.
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 Paraburdoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515029/paraburdoo/topic/ancestry-heritage