7.3% ▼ -49.1%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Rockmount · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Rockmount
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Rockmount remains a community with very few overseas-born residents, a trend that has stayed consistent since 2011. Most people here identify with British and Irish roots, with English and Australian ancestries being the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most frequent at 45.1%, followed by Australian at 40.2% and Scottish at 25.6%. Other common roots include Irish at 18.3% and German at 9.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 7.3% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%. The vast majority of the population, 79.3%, was 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 Rockmount [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32452/rockmount/topic/ancestry-heritage