The suburb with 43pc Poms: it's our own Little Britain
July 19, 2012 12:00AM Bernard Salt
DRAWING on figures released last week from the 2011 census, I have identified this nation's leading ethnicity hotspots.
What proportion of the population by country of birth dominates which suburbs? Where are the most intense immigrant concentrations? And are these concentrations sufficiently distinctive to qualify as ethnic enclaves?
There are two suburbs where exactly 43 per cent of the population was born in a single country other than Australia. One is located in Sydney's west as you might expect; the other is a surprise.
That other is the new suburb of Jindalee on the northernmost edge of Perth. Positioned between Wanneroo Road and the Indian Ocean, Jindalee was home to 1200 residents at the census, of whom 43 per cent were born in a single overseas country.
And the name of the single country of birth for almost half Jindalee's residents? Why, it's Britain, of course. Interestingly the five most "British" suburbs in Australia are located in Perth: Jindalee, Mindarie (34 per cent), Connolly (33 per cent), Burns Beach (32 per cent) and Carramar (32 per cent).
What is it about the northern and mostly coastal beaches of Perth that so attract the British to the exclusion of other migrants?
I suspect this is a hangover from the Ten-Pound-Pom immigration scheme from the 1950s and 60s when British migrants sick of the boat got off at Fremantle.
Once a nationality establishes critical mass in a region, subsequent familial and tribal links attract yet more from the same group; it becomes an upward spiral. Someone should look at opening a fish and chip shop in Jindalee.
The second example of ethnic concentration in Australia relates to the Indians in Sydney's Harris Park near Parramatta. As with the British in Jindalee, the Indians in Harris Park comprise 43 per cent of the local population.
There are other places in Australia where the overseas born comprise greater than 43 per cent of the population but not by a single ethnic group.
The same logic applies to parts of suburbs: if 43 per cent of Jindalee and Harris Park comprises a single ethnic group then precincts and streets within these suburbs would contain even higher proportions.
New Zealanders are, in fact, the second most common migrant group in Australia after the British. But unlike the British, the Kiwis like to spread themselves around; they like to infiltrate and sidle up, even saddle up, with the native population.
Why, you could be living next door to a New Zealander and you wouldn't even know it. The Australian locality with the highest proportion of Kiwi residents is the mining community of Kambalda East near Kalgoorlie, where 17 per cent of the population was born across the Tasman.
Other New Zealander hotspots include Upper Coomera and Pacific Pines on the northern end of the Gold Coast, where between 14 and 16 per cent of the population was born in New Zealand.
The Chinese like to cluster in Sydney's Hurstville, where they comprise 36 per cent of the population. And if it isn't Hurstville then it's the nearby suburbs of Rhodes and Burwood, where 28 per cent of the population was born in China.
The Italians stopped arriving in droves a generation ago; by now they have spilled and spread into the local population although some still cluster in a few areas.
In Adelaide's Hectorville, in the city's eastern suburbs, the proportion of the population born in Italy is 16 per cent. In Sydney's Haberfield this proportion is 15 per cent, while in Melbourne's Keilor Park it is also 15 per cent.
The Vietnamese love to get together and stay together: in Sydney's Cabramatta, 35 per cent of the population was born in Vietnam. The highest proportion of Vietnamese in any Melbourne suburb is 25 per cent in Sunshine North.
I had never heard of the Sydney suburb of Woodcroft in Blacktown until now; it is famous because no other Australian suburb has a higher proportion of Filipinos (24 per cent). Four of the top five Australian suburbs preferred by South Africans are in Sydney. Dover Heights is No 1 with 15 per cent of the population of this nationality. Also popular with the South Africans are Sydney's St Ives and Rose Bay, where they form between 10 and 12 per cent of the population.
Malaysians prefer the Perth suburb of Karawara near Curtin University, where they account for 11 per cent of the population. These are most likely overseas students who are counted as Australian residents.
Would someone please tell me what is going on in the small town of Speewah (population 820) inland from Cairns, where 3 per cent of the population was born in Germany; it has the highest proportion of Germans of any place in Australia. Actually the Germans also like Coober Pedy, where again they comprise 3 per cent of the population.
Once you start filtering the nation for ethnic hotspots, you kinda get hooked on the process. Did you know that there is an Irish enclave in Perth's nightclub district of Northbridge? Seven per cent of the population in this suburb was born in Ireland -- backpackers, I suspect
Brits are just pink looking Indians anyway aren't they? ...
My son had a swimming lesson yesterday with the son of a polish migrant. The guy had a very British accent, and you only caught the Polish on the odd word. For all intents and purposes, he was British.
Whenever you have an argument with someone, there comes a moment where you must ask yourself, whatever your political persuasion, 'am I the Nazi?'
The distribution in Perths northern beach suburbs is to do with those suburbs being developed when Poms came over in their droves in the 2000's. Poms typically rent then build new rather than buying established.
In the 70's and 80's it was Rockingham and Kelmscott.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
The distribution in Perths northern beach suburbs is to do with those suburbs being developed when Poms came over in their droves in the 2000's. Poms typically rent then build new rather than buying established.
In the 70's and 80's it was Rockingham and Kelmscott.
Now it is Secret Harbour and Baldivis.
Woodvale is full of them, very welcoming and friendly though I have to say !
Why would you link an article from over two years ago today? Aren't there enough recent stories about migrants?
Yes we are being overrun.
Too many pomz, Indians,Pakistanis, Chineseand Irish, and too many musos too.
I believe many of our forum bulls are ex pat pomy and uk.
But yes as the heading ,Australia is being OVERUN by migrants.
And Australia was a much nicer, safer place ,before these horrible mistake were made by our government.And to think it was all in the name of the government gravy train, which is now fallimg apart. So now its just a lose lose situation where the tax payer now has to fund the majority.
No wonder is Australia is headed down the economic and social toilet.
We copied the ways of all the other western governments , who have destroyed what they once had in the name of greed and using immigration and multiculture to feed the time bomb.
But now we ,the Australain public, have to deal with it all.
There can never be too many musicians, ever, anywhere.
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Too many pomz, Indians,Pakistanis, Chineseand Irish, and too many musos too.
I believe many of our forum bulls are ex pat pomy and uk.
But yes as the heading ,Australia is being OVERUN by migrants.
And Australia was a much nicer, safer place ,before these horrible mistake were made by our government.And to think it was all in the name of the government gravy train, which is now fallimg apart. So now its just a lose lose situation where the tax payer now has to fund the majority.
No wonder is Australia is headed down the economic and social toilet.
We copied the ways of all the other western governments , who have destroyed what they once had in the name of greed and using immigration and multiculture to feed the time bomb.
But now we ,the Australain public, have to deal with it all.
No our country needs new blood, or we may become a land of global warming worshipers.
The migrants will get to work and build the country while the locals talk shit about global warming, green house gasses and solar panels.
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