19.4% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Wavell Heights · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Wavell Heights
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far more people were born overseas in Wavell Heights than in most similar areas. While 19.4% of residents grew up abroad, this is still well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestral backgrounds are English at 38.9% and Australian at 36.3%, followed by Irish at 15.5% and Scottish at 12.4%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Most residents were born in Australia (78.5%), with the next most common birthplaces being England (3.2%) and New Zealand (2.9%).
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 Wavell Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33015/wavell-heights/topic/ancestry-heritage