11.8% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Pleasant
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 11.8% of people in Mount Pleasant were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a population with deep local roots and a very strong connection to traditional British and Australian heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up 44.4% and 41.3% of the population. Other frequent roots include Irish, Scottish, and German heritage.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Four in five people here were born in Australia. This is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7% for those born overseas, with England and New Zealand being the most common birthplaces outside Australia.
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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32015/mount-pleasant/topic/ancestry-heritage