2.5% ▼ -48.5%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cooranga · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cooranga
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 2.5% of people in Cooranga were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a population with very few recent arrivals and deep roots in Australia, England, and Ireland.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 40.3% and English at 36.1%, followed by Irish (26.9%), Scottish (17.6%) and German (16.0%).
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 85.7% of residents born in Australia, the share of overseas-born people is far below the Queensland figure by 20 percentage points and the national figure by 25 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 Cooranga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30701/cooranga/topic/ancestry-heritage