20.9% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Kiels Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Kiels Mountain than in most similar areas. While 20.9% of the population was born abroad, the community remains strongly rooted in British and Irish heritage.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 50.1%, followed by Australian at 37.8% and Scottish at 15.3%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The 20.9% of residents born overseas is much higher than in most similar areas, though this is a little below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and well below the Australian average of 27.7%. Most residents were born in Australia (78.9%), with England (5.9%) and New Zealand (5.2%) being the most common overseas birthplaces.
20.9% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Kiels Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31525/kiels-mountain/topic/ancestry-heritage