3.0% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Koolywurtie · Suburb / Locality
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Very few residents were born outside Australia in Koolywurtie, making it much less diverse than most similar areas. With only 3.0% of the population born overseas, the community is overwhelmingly Australian-born.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the people here identify as Australian (49.5%) or English (47.5%), followed by Irish ancestry at 14.9% and German at 5.9%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the national figure of 27.7% and the state's 24.1%. Most people were born in Australia (92.1%), while England is the most common overseas birthplace at 4.0%.
3.0% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Koolywurtie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40710/koolywurtie/topic/ancestry-heritage