3.6% ▲ +158.7%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Goolgowi · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Goolgowi
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Just 3.6% of people in Goolgowi were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes it one of the areas with the lowest proportion of overseas-born residents in the region, where the vast majority of the population was born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Half of the residents claim Australian ancestry, while English ancestry is the next most common at 27.8%. Other notable groups include Irish and Scottish ancestry, making up 7.2% and 6.6% respectively.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3%, though it has risen 2.2 percentage points since 2011. Most people here were born in Australia, accounting for 80.5% of the population.
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 Goolgowi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122062/goolgowi/topic/ancestry-heritage