37.3% ▼ -17.5%
Lower than 53% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Charters Towers · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Charters Towers
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Charters Towers over the last decade, even as more international arrivals settle here. While 17.6% of the population arrived from overseas recently, the overall proportion of people moving into the area has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. This movement has slowed over time, falling 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.6% of the population, a figure well above the national and state averages. This has risen slightly from 15.9% in 2011.
17.6% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 17.6%
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 Charters Towers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/318011462/charters-towers/topic/mobility-location