14.7% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Rainbow Flat · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Rainbow Flat
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than half of the people in Rainbow Flat claim English ancestry. This reflects a community with strong traditional roots, where most residents were born in Australia or trace their family history back to the UK and Ireland.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English ancestry is the most common at 52.9%, followed by Australian at 36.6% and Irish at 17.8%. Other notable groups include Scottish and Dutch ancestry.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is 14.7%, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia. This figure has fallen 4.5 percentage points since 2011, and 78.5% of residents were born in Australia.
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 Rainbow Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122113/rainbow-flat/topic/ancestry-heritage