11.4% ▼ 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Palen Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Palen Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 11.4% of people in Palen Creek were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much more likely to be born in Australia than typical Queensland or Australian communities.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 18.2%, followed by Australian at 16.8%, Irish at 7.9%, German at 7.1%, and Scottish at 6.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The vast majority of residents were born in Australia (86.1%), which explains why the overseas-born population is far below the Queensland figure by 11 percentage points and the national figure by 16 points. New Zealand and Vietnam are the next most common birthplaces at 2.7% each.
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 Palen Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32253/palen-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage