9.5% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Miriam Vale · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Miriam Vale sits right in the middle of similar areas for the proportion of people born overseas. It is a predominantly Australian-born community, with 85.4% of residents born here and a strong lean toward British and Irish roots.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 48.5% and English at 46.2%, followed by Scottish, German, and Irish roots.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.5% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Queensland (22.7%) and Australia (27.7%). New Zealand is the most common overseas birthplace at 3.2%.
9.5% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Miriam Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31860/miriam-vale/topic/ancestry-heritage