38.2% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Longreach · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Longreach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Longreach since 2011, though it still attracts a surprising number of people from abroad. While the proportion of residents who moved recently has fallen, 17.2% of the population arrived from overseas in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.2% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure and well below the Queensland average. This is a drop of 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.2% of the population, which is much higher than most other areas. This is well above the Queensland average, though the figure has fallen 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
17.2% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 75% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 17.2%
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 Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/315031412/longreach/topic/mobility-location