4.3% ▼ -71.8%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Warakurna · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Warakurna
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A sharp drop in the number of people born overseas has shaped the recent history of Warakurna (L). Only 4.3% of residents were born outside Australia in 2021, a figure that has fallen by 11 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area one of the least internationally diverse places in the region.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported here are English at 5.4% and Australian at 3.2%, followed by Irish at 1.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 91.9% of people born in Australia, the overseas-born population is far below the Western Australian figure of 32.2% and the national figure of 27.7%.
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 Warakurna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522063/warakurna/topic/ancestry-heritage