0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Merryvale · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A total absence of overseas-born residents makes Merryvale one of the most domestically born areas in the region. Most people here identify with traditional British and Irish roots, with English being the most common ancestry at 31.3%.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most frequent ancestry at 31.3%, followed by Scottish at 12.5%. Australian, Irish, and German ancestries each account for 9.4% of the population.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
No one in Merryvale was born overseas, a figure far below the Queensland rate of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. Over half of the population was born in Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Merryvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31816/merryvale/topic/ancestry-heritage