10.2% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Oakey Park · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Oakey Park
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian ancestry is the most common heritage in Oakey Park, where 43% of people claim this background. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with a very small proportion of residents arriving from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is also very common at 40.7%, followed by Irish at 13.4% and Scottish at 11.8%. German heritage is reported by 5.2% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.2% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national rate of 27.7%. The vast majority of the population, 88.5%, 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 Oakey Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13066/oakey-park/topic/ancestry-heritage