14.1% ▼ -39.3%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cook · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cook
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Around the middle of similar areas for overseas births, Cook is a region where most people were born in Australia. The area is predominantly of Australian and English descent, though it has seen a sharp drop in the proportion of overseas-born residents over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 29.5% and English at 28.4%, followed by Irish, Scottish, and German backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 14.1% of people were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and well below Queensland's 22.7%. This proportion has fallen by 9.1 percentage points since 2011, with 67.7% of the population 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 Cook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32500/cook/topic/ancestry-heritage