12.7% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Royston · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Royston
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Roughly 12.7% of people in Royston were born overseas, which is around the middle mark for similar areas. The community has deep roots in the British Isles, with many residents claiming Australian, English, or Scottish ancestry.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common at 43.4%, followed by English at 35.0%, Scottish at 12.4%, and German at 11.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is well below the Queensland figure by 10 percentage points and far below the national figure by 15 points. Most people here were born in Australia (77.2%), with England (5.8%) and New Zealand (2.9%) as the next most common birthplaces.
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 Royston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32487/royston/topic/ancestry-heritage