10.8% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lowood · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lowood
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Lowood compared to the rest of the state. Only 10.8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is a huge gap when compared to the national figure of 27.7%. This makes the area much less diverse in terms of birthplace than most of the country.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim Australian or English ancestry, with 41.8% and 39.2% respectively. Other common backgrounds include German, Scottish and Irish heritage.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7%. Around 82.2% of people here were born in Australia, while the most common overseas birthplaces are England and New Zealand.
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 Lowood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31700/lowood/topic/ancestry-heritage