Where the British community lives in Cairns
Palm Cove has the largest British community: 14.3% of residents were born in the UK. Kewarra Beach and Clifton Beach follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 30 eligible Cairns suburbs.
This page ranks Cairns suburbs by where the British community is most established, using the 2021 Census. Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in the UK. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are ranked.
Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side — ancestry, country of birth, language spoken at home — but the ABS publishes only one for the British community, and a zero in place of a question that was never asked would read as an absence of people. Percentile ranks are computed within Cairns's pool. This is descriptive demographic information, not a recommendation. The census publishes no British ancestry category — English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish are separate answers, and adding them together would invent a grouping the ABS never measured. Country of birth is the published British figure.
Where the British community lives in Cairns
Ranked by the share of residents who were born in the UK in the 2021 Census, among suburbs with at least 2,000 residents.
Palm Cove
QLD 4879 · 2,450 residents14% born in the UK
Kewarra Beach
QLD 4879 · 6,133 residents10% born in the UK
Clifton Beach
QLD 4879 · 3,192 residents10% born in the UK
Trinity Beach
QLD 4879 · 6,594 residents8% born in the UK
Yorkeys Knob
QLD 4878 · 2,794 residents8% born in the UK
Trinity Park
QLD 4879 · 3,536 residents7% born in the UK
Holloways Beach
QLD 4878 · 2,398 residents7% born in the UK
Caravonica
QLD 4878 · 2,183 residents7% born in the UK
Freshwater
QLD 4870 · 2,142 residents7% born in the UK
Whitfield
QLD 4870 · 4,262 residents6% born in the UK
Edge Hill
QLD 4870 · 4,088 residents6% born in the UK
Cairns City
QLD 4870 · 3,616 residents5% born in the UK
Redlynch
QLD 4870 · 10,571 residents5% born in the UK
Smithfield
QLD 4878 · 6,664 residents5% born in the UK
Cairns North
QLD 4870 · 5,334 residents4% born in the UK
Ranked from 30 qualifying suburbs.
Ranked on the share of residents born in the relevant country (ancestry fragments across sub-groups, so birthplace is the more reliable signal here) in the 2021 Census, percentile-ranked within Cairns's candidate pool. Every suburb also shows all three census angles — ancestry, country of birth, and language spoken at home — because no single number captures a community on its own. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents qualify. Ancestry is a multiple-response question, so shares read as "residents who reported this ancestry", not an exclusive count. Descriptive ABS Census data, not a recommendation. See how we calculate for the full methodology.
Common questions about this ranking
Where does the British community live in Cairns?
Palm Cove has the largest British community: 14.3% of residents were born in the UK. Kewarra Beach and Clifton Beach follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 30 eligible Cairns suburbs. In Cairns suburbs of 2,000+ residents, 4.8% of people were born in the UK (2021 Census).
How is this ranking put together?
Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in the UK. The census publishes no British ancestry category — English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish are separate answers, and adding them together would invent a grouping the ABS never measured. Country of birth is the published British figure. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are included, and percentile ranks are computed within Cairns's pool, so the list reflects concentration relative to other metro suburbs.
Why is only one figure shown per suburb?
Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side, but the ABS publishes a fixed list of ancestries, birthplaces and languages, and they do not cover every community equally. We show the figures that exist rather than filling the gaps with a zero, which would read as an absence of people instead of an absence of a question.
How current is it?
The figures are from the 2021 Census, the most recent available until results from the August 2026 Census are released in 2027. The top 15 is recomputed whenever we refresh the census data.
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Rankings last computed 28 September 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.
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