31.3% —
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mareeba · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Mareeba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far lower proportion of people have moved house in Mareeba recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 31.3% of residents arrived in the last five years, though the area has seen a steady increase in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people move into Mareeba than in most other areas, with the 31.3% figure sitting well below the national average of 40.7%. This level of movement has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 14.0% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the Queensland and national totals, but it has risen by 3.0 percentage points since 2016.
14.0% —
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34880/mareeba/topic/mobility-location