0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Toomelah · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Almost no one was born overseas in Toomelah, creating a far larger gap with the state and national figures than in most other areas. This sparsely populated place is now almost entirely Australian-born, with the proportion of overseas births dropping by 22 percentage points since 2011.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian is the most common ancestry here at 8.0%, while English, Irish, Scottish and Chinese ancestries are not recorded.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The percentage of people born overseas is 0.0%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 29.3% and the national figure of 27.7%. This means 98.4% of the population was born in Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Toomelah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122136/toomelah/topic/ancestry-heritage