20.5% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Oyster Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Oyster Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Diverse cultural roots shape daily life in Oyster Creek, where more than one in five people were born overseas. While English and Australian ancestries are most common, the area has a much higher proportion of overseas-born residents than most similar places.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 35.9%, followed by Australian at 25.6% and Irish at 7.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 20.5% of residents were born overseas, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, this is a little below the Queensland figure and well below the national average.
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 Oyster Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32244/oyster-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage