15.1% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cooloolabin · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cooloolabin
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More people were born overseas in Cooloolabin than in most similar areas, though the total remains low. Roughly 15% of the population arrived from abroad, creating a community with deep roots in Australian and British heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are most common, each making up about 39% of the population, followed by Irish at 14.1% and Scottish at 11.6%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While the 15.1% overseas birth rate is higher than in similar areas, it is far below the 27.7% national figure. Most residents were born in Australia (69.1%), with England (4.8%) and New Zealand (2.9%) as the next most common birthplaces.
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 Cooloolabin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30685/cooloolabin/topic/ancestry-heritage