11.2% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Nanango · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Nanango
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Few changes have occurred in the cultural makeup of Nanango over the last decade, as the area remains very traditional. English and Australian ancestries dominate the local profile, with 83.5% of residents claiming one of these backgrounds.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English (43.5%) and Australian (40.0%) are the most common ancestries, followed by Irish at 11.3% and Scottish at 9.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.2% of people were born overseas, a figure far below the 22.7% seen across Queensland and 27.7% nationally. Most residents were born in Australia (77.1%), with England (3.7%) and New Zealand (2.7%) being the most common overseas birthplaces.
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 Nanango [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32100/nanango/topic/ancestry-heritage