13.2% ▲ +89.3%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Cooktown · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Cooktown
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Far fewer people were born overseas in Cooktown than in the rest of the country, though this group has nearly doubled recently. Only 13.2% of residents were born outside Australia, which is far below the national figure.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 32.5% and English at 30.1%, followed by Irish at 10.1% and Scottish at 8.7%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
While the share of overseas-born residents is well below the Queensland figure, it rose 6.2 percentage points since 2011. Most people here were born in Australia (72.8%), with New Zealand and England as the next most common birthplaces.
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315024/cooktown/topic/ancestry-heritage