52.7% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 53.7%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Weipa · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Weipa
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Weipa have moved house in the last five years. This makes the community much more mobile than most other areas, with 52.7% of residents being relatively new arrivals. However, the number of people moving here from overseas has dropped significantly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population (52.7%) moved here in the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This is much higher than most similar areas, though the figure fell slightly from 53.7% in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.4% of the population, which is well below both the Queensland and national figures. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when 23.7% of the community had arrived from abroad recently.
9.4% ▼ -60.5%
Lower than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Weipa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/315011403/weipa/topic/mobility-location