42.9% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 72% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 47.8%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Townsville · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Townsville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 42% of people in Townsville changed their address in the five years before the 2021 census. This makes the area more mobile than most parts of the country, though the number of people moving in has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.9% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is a little above the national figure. This is higher than most similar areas, but is a little below the Queensland average of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.8% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for both Queensland and Australia. This is a notable drop from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 23.8%.
13.8% ▼ -42.1%
Higher than 56% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 13.8%
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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31802/townsville/topic/mobility-location