49.1% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 48.9%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 49.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gold Coast · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Gold Coast
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Gold Coast have moved house in the last five years, a rate well above the national figure. This high level of mobility shows the area is a major draw for new arrivals, even as the proportion of recent overseas migrants has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.1% of people here moved in the last five years, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is well above the Queensland rate of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.0% of the population, which is about the same as the state average. This is a little below the Australian figure and represents a fall of 8.5 percentage points since 2011.
13.0% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 Gold Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33430/gold-coast/topic/mobility-location