51.5% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 50.3%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 51.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thornlands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Thornlands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Thornlands have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility makes the area much more transient than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51.5% of residents changed homes recently, a figure well above the Queensland rate of 44.8% and far above the national figure. This proportion of movers has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.9% of people arrived from overseas recently, which is well below both the state and national figures. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 19.9% of the population were recent arrivals.
7.9% ▼ -60.1%
Lower than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Thornlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/301021012/thornlands/topic/mobility-location