43.3% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whitsunday · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Whitsunday
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well over a fifth of people in Whitsunday have arrived from overseas, a figure far higher than the national average. This creates a highly mobile population where nearly 43% of residents have changed their home in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.3% of people moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This level of movement is a little above the Australian figure and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.7% of the population, which is well above both the Queensland (13.7%) and national (14.5%) figures. This proportion fell slightly from 22.7% in 2011.
21.7% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 Whitsunday [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37340/whitsunday/topic/mobility-location