6.8% ▼ -58.3%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Meekatharra · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Meekatharra
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 6.8% of people in Meekatharra were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much less diverse in terms of birthplace 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 18.7% and 16.6% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents has fallen by 9.5 percentage points since 2011, leaving the 6.8% figure far below the Western Australian rate of 32.2%.
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 Meekatharra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521032/meekatharra/topic/ancestry-heritage