35.4% ▼ -10.9%
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Granite Belt · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Granite Belt
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into the Granite Belt recently compared to other parts of the country. Only 35.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population where most people stay put for the long term.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just over a third of the population moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Queensland average of 44.8%. This level of movement has fallen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011, showing that fewer people are relocating into the area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.2% of the population, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has barely changed since 2011, when it sat at 9.3%.
9.2% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 9.2%
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 Granite Belt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30703/granite-belt/topic/mobility-location