50.8% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 49.8%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Maroochy · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Maroochy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Maroochy have moved house recently, making it a highly mobile place to live. This churn is much higher than in most other areas across the country, though the number of people arriving from overseas has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.8% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the national average of 40.7%. This level of movement is much higher than in most areas and has stayed almost the same since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.7% of the population, which is about the same as the Queensland and national figures. This is a drop from 2011, when the proportion of recent arrivals was 20.5%.
14.7% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 14.7%
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 Maroochy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31603/maroochy/topic/mobility-location