0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Oxford · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Oxford
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Zero per cent of people in Oxford were born overseas, leaving a massive gap compared to the rest of the country. This makes it a far less diverse place than the typical Australian community, with almost everyone tracing their roots back to British and Irish heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 30.2%, followed by Australian and Irish at 18.6% each, and Scottish at 14.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Queensland figure of 22.7%. Most people here were born in 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 Oxford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32242/oxford/topic/ancestry-heritage