18.2% ▲ +3462.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Bakers Creek · Urban Centre
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A massive jump in overseas arrivals defines the recent profile of Bakers Creek (L), where the share of people born abroad rose by 18 percentage points since 2011. While 18.2% of residents were born overseas, this remains well below the national figure of 27.7%.
The ancestries people most identify with.
Australian and English ancestries are the most common, making up 36.4% and 29.8% of the area. Filipino ancestry is also prominent at 10.4%.
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is much higher than in most similar areas, though it is well below the 22.7% seen across Queensland. Nearly 10% of the population was born in the Philippines, the most common overseas birthplace.
18.2% ▲ +3462.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Bakers Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321007/bakers-creek/topic/ancestry-heritage