15.4% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Windermere · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Recent years have seen a shift in who calls Windermere home, with 15.4% of people now born overseas. While this is higher than in many similar areas, the community remains predominantly Australian in birth and ancestry.
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 42.6%, followed by Australian at 36.7% and German at 19.7%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The share of people born overseas is far below the national figure and well below the Queensland average. Most residents were born in Australia (79.3%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 3.7%.
15.4% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Windermere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33093/windermere/topic/ancestry-heritage