15.5% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount St John · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount St John
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More people were born overseas in Mount St John than in most similar areas, though it remains far less diverse than the wider nation. Nearly 69% of residents were born in Australia, with the rest coming from a small range of countries.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian ancestries are most common, each making up about 37% or 39% of the population. Irish and Scottish roots are also prominent, each accounting for 11.7% of residents.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While 15.5% of people here were born overseas, this is well below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and far below the Australian average of 27.7%. Aside from Australia, New Zealand is the most common birthplace at 6.8%.
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 Mount St John [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32021/mount-st-john/topic/ancestry-heritage