36.5% —
Lower than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Moreton Island · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Moreton Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking number of recent overseas arrivals define the movement patterns in Moreton Island. While few residents have moved house recently, nearly a quarter of the population arrived from another country in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People are less likely to move here than in other parts of the country, with 36.5% changing homes in the last five years. This is well below the 44.8% seen in Queensland and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 22.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
22.4% —
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
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 Moreton Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/313051574/moreton-island/topic/mobility-location