4.7% ▲ +39.1%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Surat · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Surat
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A very strong sense of local roots defines Surat (L), where nearly 90% of the people were born in Australia. While the population is overwhelmingly Australian-born, those with overseas roots have slightly increased over the last decade.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
The most common ancestries are Australian at 51.7% and English at 31.6%, followed by Irish, Scottish and German roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 4.7% of residents were born overseas, a figure far below the Queensland and national totals. This is much lower than most areas, though the proportion of overseas-born people rose 1.3 points since 2011.
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 Surat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322114/surat/topic/ancestry-heritage