6.6% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Talgai · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Talgai
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 6.6% of people in Talgai were born overseas, a figure far below the state and national averages. This makes the area much more homogenous than most of Queensland, with the vast majority of residents born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Most residents claim Australian ancestry at 50% or English ancestry at 44.3%. Other common backgrounds include Scottish at 15.1% and Irish at 14.2%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the Queensland figure of 22.7%. Around 85.8% of the population was born in Australia, with the Philippines being the most common overseas birthplace at 3.8%.
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 Talgai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32723/talgai/topic/ancestry-heritage