0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Southwood · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive 28 percentage point gap separates Southwood from the national average in terms of overseas births. Almost everyone here was born in Australia, making it one of the least diverse areas for birthplace in the region.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most people in Southwood claim Australian (45.6%) or English (40.4%) ancestry, with Scottish and German roots also common at 19.3% each.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Nobody in Southwood was born overseas, a figure that is far below the Queensland (22.7%) and Australian (27.7%) figures. In contrast, 87.7% of the population was born in Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Southwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32613/southwood/topic/ancestry-heritage