36.6% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mareeba · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Mareeba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over one in five people in Mareeba have arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This makes the area much more diverse than most similar places, even though fewer residents have moved house recently compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 36.6% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This is a slight drop from 2011, when 39.2% of residents had changed addresses.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.7% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This figure has risen by 6.3 points since 2011 and sits well above the Australian average of 14.5%.
20.7% ▲ +44.1%
Higher than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/306051170/mareeba/topic/mobility-location