40.5% ▲ +56.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mackenzie · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mackenzie
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than four out of ten people in Mackenzie were born overseas, making it one of the most diverse areas of its kind. This international mix is reflected in the local ancestry, where English and Australian roots are common alongside significant Chinese and Indian heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 27.1% and Australian at 27.0%, while 12.6% of residents identify as Chinese and 8.8% as Indian.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Forty-point-five per cent of people here were born overseas, a figure far above the Queensland average of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. Outside of Australia, the most common birthplaces are India at 6% and China at 4.8%.
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 Mackenzie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31726/mackenzie/topic/ancestry-heritage