0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Balcomba · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English ancestry is the most common background in Balcomba, where over half the population claims this heritage. The area is overwhelmingly Australian-born, with almost no residents having been born in another country.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most prominent at 55.2%, followed by Irish at 24.1% and German at 17.2%. Scottish heritage is also common, accounting for 13.8% of the population.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
No one in Balcomba was born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Queensland figure of 22.7%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Balcomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30122/balcomba/topic/ancestry-heritage