8.6% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Maranoa · Federal Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Maranoa
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A slight increase in the proportion of overseas-born residents has occurred in Maranoa, where 8.6% of people were born abroad. This remains a very small figure compared to the rest of the country, with the vast majority of the population having deep roots in Australia and the British Isles.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Ancestry is dominated by Australian (41.6%) and English (39.3%) roots, followed by Irish (11.5%), Scottish (10.3%), and German (7.9%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 8.6% of people were born overseas, a figure that rose 0.8 percentage points since 2011 but remains far below the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (81.6%), while the next most common birthplaces are England, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
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 Maranoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED321/maranoa/topic/ancestry-heritage