3.9% ▼ -75.7%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wangkatjungka · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wangkatjungka
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A tiny fraction of people born overseas live in Wangkatjungka (L), making it a place where the vast majority of residents are Australian-born. Only 3.9% of the population was born in another country, a figure that has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Ancestry is varied across the small population, with the most common being Australian at 1.7%, followed by English, Irish, and Scottish each at 1.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 3.9% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Western Australia (32.2%) and Australia (27.7%). This proportion has fallen 12 percentage points since 2011, and 95.2% of the population was 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 Wangkatjungka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522062/wangkatjungka/topic/ancestry-heritage