39.5% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmwoods · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Palmwoods
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 5.3% of people in Palmwoods recently arrived from overseas, which is well below the national and state figures. This highlights a community with very few new international arrivals. Overall, the area has seen a slight drop in both internal and overseas migration since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.5% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Queensland average of 44.8%. This proportion has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of people who recently arrived from overseas is much lower than in most other areas. At 5.3%, this is well below the Australian figure of 14.5% and has fallen by 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
5.3% ▼ -42.1%
Lower than 83% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/316061444/palmwoods/topic/mobility-location