40.2% —
Higher than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wide Bay · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Wide Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 40.2% of people in Wide Bay have changed homes in the last five years. This makes the region's movement patterns similar to the national figure, though it is much less likely to attract new arrivals from overseas compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People moving home in the last five years make up 40.2% of the population. This is about the same as the national figure, but well below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas account for 7.5% of residents, which is much lower than most areas. This figure has fallen since 2011 and sits well below both the state and national figures.
7.5% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 87% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Wide Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED329/wide-bay/topic/mobility-location