14.0% ▲ +33.2%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Onslow · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Onslow
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A higher share of people are born overseas in Onslow compared to most similar areas. While the community remains predominantly Australian and English in heritage, the proportion of residents born abroad has risen to 14.0% over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are Australian at 34.6% and English at 30.6%. Other notable heritages include Irish at 9.0%, Scottish at 6.9%, and German at 2.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Around 14.0% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose 3.5 percentage points since 2011, with New Zealand and England being the most common birthplaces outside 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 Onslow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521040/onslow/topic/ancestry-heritage