9.6% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Sandy Camp · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Strong roots in British and European heritage shape daily life in Sandy Camp, where nearly 90% of the population was born in Australia. The community is far less diverse than the national average, with a very small proportion of residents arriving from overseas.
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 43.3% and English at 40.4%, followed by Irish, German and Scottish roots.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.6% of people were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national figure of 27.7%.
9.6% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Sandy Camp [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32512/sandy-camp/topic/ancestry-heritage