1.2% ▲ —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Kowanyama · Council (LGA)
Ancestry & Birthplace in Kowanyama
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A tiny 1.2% of people in Kowanyama were born overseas, making it one of the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents in the country. The community is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with very few residents moving here from other nations.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries reported are English at 3.0% and Australian at 2.2%, followed by Irish, Scottish and German backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With only 1.2% of people born outside Australia, the figure is far below the Queensland average of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. This proportion rose slightly since 2011, though 89.9% 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 Kowanyama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34420/kowanyama/topic/ancestry-heritage