18.4% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Coolabine · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Coolabine
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A shift in roots has occurred in Coolabine, where 18.4% of residents were born overseas. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Almost half of residents claim Australian ancestry (48.7%), followed closely by English (46.1%) and Scottish (15.8%) roots. Other common ancestries include German at 11.8% and Dutch at 7.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most people here were born in Australia (76.3%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 13.2%. Overall, the share of overseas-born residents is well below the national figure by 9.3 percentage points.
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 Coolabine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30676/coolabine/topic/ancestry-heritage