9.7% ▲ +21.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Goonellabah · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Goonellabah
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of British and Australian heritage shapes the identity of Goonellabah. Most residents claim Australian or English ancestry, while the area remains far more traditional in its birthplaces than the state or national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are almost equally common at 41.2% and 41.3% respectively, followed by Irish (12.8%) and Scottish (10.9%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.7% of people in Goonellabah were born overseas, a figure that is far below the 29.3% seen across New South Wales. This means the vast majority of the population, 84.9%, were 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 Goonellabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11717/goonellabah/topic/ancestry-heritage