43.6% —
Higher than 70% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Herbert · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Herbert
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 43% of people in Herbert have changed their home in the last five years. This makes the area more mobile than most similar places, although the number of people moving in and out has dropped since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.6% of residents moved recently, which is a little above the national figure of 40.7%. This is higher than most similar areas, despite a 3.5 percentage point fall since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.1% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the figure was 24.1%.
14.1% ▼ -41.6%
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
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 Herbert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED315/herbert/topic/mobility-location