10.3% ▲ +21.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Perwillowen · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Perwillowen
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost 91% of people in Perwillowen were born in Australia. This makes the area far less diverse in birthplace than the rest of the state and country, with a population rooted deeply in traditional British and Australian ancestries.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 50.2%, followed by Australian at 36.2%. Other common roots include Scottish (16.0%), Irish (15.5%), and German (10.3%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.3% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Queensland rate of 22.7%. Australia is the birthplace for 90.6% of the population, with England being the next most common at 2.3%.
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 Perwillowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32301/perwillowen/topic/ancestry-heritage