40.0% —
Higher than 53% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dawson · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Dawson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A higher than usual share of people in Dawson have arrived from overseas, though recent arrivals have fallen. This movement creates a diverse mix of residents in a place where about 40% of people have changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that has barely changed since 2016. This is about the same as the national figure, though it is well below Queensland's 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.5% of the population, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a drop from 2011, when the share of recent arrivals was 27%.
16.5% ▼ -38.8%
Higher than 70% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Dawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED306/dawson/topic/mobility-location