39.8% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Atherton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Atherton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved here from overseas than in most similar areas, making Atherton a welcoming spot for new arrivals. While about 15.5% of the population arrived from abroad recently, the local community is generally more settled than the Queensland average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.8% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This movement has fallen by 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.5% of the population, a figure that is a little above both the state and national averages. This proportion has risen by 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
15.5% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 15.5%
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/306051166/atherton/topic/mobility-location