34.4% ▼ -4.6%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Paroo · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Paroo
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into or arriving in Paroo compared to most other areas. Only 4.8% of residents arrived from overseas recently, and the proportion of people moving home has fallen since 2011. This suggests a very stable or shrinking population with very little new arrival activity.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below the national figure of 40.7% and far below Queensland's 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.8% of the population, a figure that is much lower than most areas and well below the national 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 21% of the population had arrived from overseas recently.
4.8% ▼ -77.3%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Paroo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA35800/paroo/topic/mobility-location