48.3% —
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 47.3%
- 2021: 48.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sunshine Coast · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Sunshine Coast
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in the Sunshine Coast have moved house recently, putting it among the most mobile areas of its kind. This high rate of movement is driven by people relocating within Australia, while the proportion of new arrivals from overseas has fallen slightly over the last few years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 48.3% of people moved home in the five years before the 2021 census, which is well above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This represents a slight increase from 47.3% in 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.8% of the population, which is a little below the Queensland figure and well below the national average. This proportion fell by 1.6 percentage points since 2016.
10.8% —
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 10.8%
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 Sunshine Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36720/sunshine-coast/topic/mobility-location