23.3% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Burleigh Waters · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Burleigh Waters
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian roots dominate the family trees of Burleigh Waters, where 79.3% of residents claim one of these two ancestries. This creates a community with a strong British heritage, while roughly one in four people was born overseas.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 43.3%, followed by Australian at 36.0%. Irish and Scottish roots are also prominent, each held by over 11% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Born-overseas residents make up 23.3% of the area, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the Queensland figure, though well below the national average of 27.7%, with New Zealand and England as the most common birthplaces after 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 Burleigh Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30446/burleigh-waters/topic/ancestry-heritage