41.8% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 45.4%
- 2016: 45.4%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gladstone · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Gladstone
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A steep decline in new arrivals from overseas is the main story for Gladstone, where the proportion of recent overseas migrants fell by 14 percentage points since 2011. This shift stands out in a region where 41.8% of people have moved house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than four in ten people here moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is a little above the national average, though it has fallen 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.3% of the population, a figure well below both the Queensland and Australian averages. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 24.2% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
10.3% ▼ -57.5%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 10.3%
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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33360/gladstone/topic/mobility-location