46.8% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 83% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hervey Bay · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Hervey Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Hervey Bay have moved house recently, making it a highly mobile place to live. While it attracts many people from within Australia, it sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is well above the national average of 40.7%, though it has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 6.9% of the population, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian averages. This proportion has also dropped since 2011, when it sat at 10.9%.
6.9% ▼ -36.8%
Lower than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31904/hervey-bay/topic/mobility-location