10.1% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Toolakea · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Toolakea
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Nearly eight in ten people in Toolakea were born in Australia, making it a place with a much stronger local birth rate than the state average. This deep local connection is reflected in the ancestry data, where Australian and English roots are the most common.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most frequent at 43.1%, followed by English at 36.7%. Irish and Scottish backgrounds are also prominent, each accounting for 9.6% of the population.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 10.1% of residents were born overseas, which is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7% and the national average of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia (78.4%), with England and New Zealand being the most common overseas 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 Toolakea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32846/toolakea/topic/ancestry-heritage