10.0% ▲ +10.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Blackwater · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Blackwater
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian is the most common ancestry in Blackwater, where nearly 40% of people claim this heritage. The area is overwhelmingly born in Australia, with a much smaller proportion of overseas-born residents compared to the rest of the state and country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 39.8% and English at 32.0%, followed by Irish, Scottish and German roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (73.3%), with New Zealand as the next most common birthplace at 4.0%.
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 Blackwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30281/blackwater/topic/ancestry-heritage