38.2% ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Goondiwindi · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Goondiwindi
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five residents in Goondiwindi recently arrived from overseas, making it much more welcoming to new migrants than most other areas. While these international arrivals are common, the town has seen a general dip in people moving here over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.2% of people moved house in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure. This is well below the Queensland average and represents a 3.7 percentage point drop since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 18.4% of the population, a figure well above both the state and national averages. However, this is a sharp decrease from 2011, when the proportion of recent arrivals was 40.4%.
18.4% ▼ -54.4%
Higher than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 18.4%
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 Goondiwindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/307011173/goondiwindi/topic/mobility-location