6.0% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Ballard · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Ballard
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 6% of people in Ballard were born overseas, a figure far below both the Queensland and national averages. This makes the area much less diverse in terms of birthplace than most other regions, with the vast majority of residents born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 50.9%, followed by Australian at 32.9% and Scottish at 16.2%. Other common ancestries include Irish at 15% and German at 13.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the state average of 22.7%. About 85.6% of people were born in Australia, while 3% were born in England.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Ballard
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Ballard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30129/ballard/topic/ancestry-heritage