6.6% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Flying Fox · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Flying Fox
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 6.6% of people in Flying Fox were born overseas, meaning the vast majority of the population is Australian-born. This creates a community with deep local roots, where nearly half of the residents identify as Australian by ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 49.2% and English at 44.3%. Irish and Scottish heritage are also common, accounting for 18% and 14.8% of the population respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 6.6% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national average of 27.7%. While 80.3% were born in Australia, New Zealand is the most common overseas birthplace at 11.5%.
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 Flying Fox [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31058/flying-fox/topic/ancestry-heritage