4.4% ▲ +34.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Brookstead · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Brookstead
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 4.4% of people in Brookstead were born overseas, which is far below the national figure. This small proportion of overseas-born residents marks the area as much less diverse than most other parts of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people here claim Australian ancestry at 44.0%, followed by English at 39.0%, Scottish at 11.5%, Irish at 8.2%, and German at 6.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The percentage of people born outside Australia is far below the Queensland figure by 18 points and the national figure by 23 points. About 80.8% of the population 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 Brookstead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30389/brookstead/topic/ancestry-heritage