35.0% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balonne · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Balonne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A remarkably high share of overseas arrivals defines Balonne, where 27.4% of the population moved from abroad. This is far above the figures for Queensland and Australia. While international arrivals are common, fewer people in the region have moved house recently compared to most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 27.4% of the population, a figure far above the Queensland average of 13.7%. This is among the highest proportions seen in similar areas, though it fell 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
27.4% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 27.4%
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 Balonne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA30300/balonne/topic/mobility-location