10.5% ▼ -4.1%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Gordonvale · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Gordonvale
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Only 10.5% of people in Gordonvale were born overseas, a figure far below the national average. This makes the town much less diverse in terms of birthplace than most of Australia. Most residents identify with traditional British or Australian roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common, making up 37.7% and 36.8% of the population respectively. Other notable groups include Irish (10.7%), Scottish (9.4%) and Italian (7.1%) backgrounds.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
With 81.5% of people born in Australia, the proportion of overseas-born residents is far below the Queensland figure of 22.7%. This has barely changed over the last decade, moving from 11% in 2011 to 10.5% in 2021.
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 Gordonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314012/gordonvale/topic/ancestry-heritage