19.4% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Scrubby Creek · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Scrubby Creek
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly 9 percentage points fewer people were born overseas in Scrubby Creek compared to the national figure. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the rates seen across Queensland and Australia. The area is predominantly shaped by English and Australian roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Over half of residents claim English ancestry (56.5%), followed by Australian (29.0%) and Irish (21.0%). German and Dutch backgrounds are also common, at 16.1% and 6.5% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 19.4% of people were born overseas, which is well below the Queensland figure of 22.7%. Most of the population was born in Australia (69.4%), with England (8.1%) and New Zealand (4.8%) 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 Scrubby Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32530/scrubby-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage