13.5% ▼ -33.4%
Lower than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Lockyer · State Electorate
Ancestry & Birthplace in Lockyer
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Australian and English backgrounds are the most common for residents in Lockyer, with 40% and 39.5% claiming these ancestries respectively. This creates a population with very strong ties to these two groups, while overseas birth rates remain quite low.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Along with the high proportion of Australian and English roots, German ancestry is also common at 12.6%, followed by Irish at 10.3% and Scottish at 9.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 13.5% of people were born overseas, a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011. Most residents were born in Australia (80.3%), with smaller groups arriving from England, New Zealand, India and the Philippines.
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 Lockyer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30043/lockyer/topic/ancestry-heritage