11.5% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Waikola · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Waikola
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A strong sense of Australian heritage defines daily life in Waikola, where nearly 70% of people identify with that ancestry. Most of the population was born in Australia, resulting in a community with far fewer overseas-born residents than the national average.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian ancestry is the most common here at 69.2%, followed by Scottish at 19.2% and English at 11.5%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 11.5% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Queensland and Australia. While 100% of the total population is listed as born in Australia in the breakdown, 11.5% of residents specifically identify as being born in England.
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 Waikola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32952/waikola/topic/ancestry-heritage