14.6% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ball Bay · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ball Bay
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Ball Bay compared to the rest of the country, with only 14.6% of residents arriving from another nation. This makes the area much less diverse in birthplace than the state or national average, despite having a higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar areas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 42.4%, followed by Australian at 34.6% and Irish at 15.1%. Scottish and German ancestries also feature in the local mix.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 77.3% of people here were born in Australia, 14.6% were born overseas—a figure that is well below the Queensland average and far below the national figure. For those born abroad, England is the most frequent origin at 4.7%, with New Zealand and South Africa each at 2.1%.
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 Ball Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30127/ball-bay/topic/ancestry-heritage