6.6% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Thursday Island · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Thursday Island
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very few people were born overseas in Thursday Island compared to most other Australian areas. Only 6.6% of the population was born abroad, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. This creates a community where the vast majority of residents were born within Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common at 16.2%, followed by English at 11.2%, Scottish at 4.1%, Irish at 4.0% and Chinese at 1.8%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7%. About 85.5% of people were born in Australia, while the most common overseas birthplaces are New Zealand, England, India and the Philippines.
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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/ancestry-heritage