11.6% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Running Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Running Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
English and Australian roots dominate the family trees of Running Creek, where nearly half of the people claim English ancestry. This heritage is reflected in a community that is far more likely to have been born in Australia than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are English at 48.6% and Australian at 36.3%, followed by Irish at 16.4%, Scottish at 9.6%, and German at 8.9%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.6% of people here were born overseas, which is far below the 22.7% seen across Queensland and the 27.7% national figure. Australia is the birthplace for 82.2% of residents, while England accounts for 6.2%.
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 Running Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32493/running-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage