40.6% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 61% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairns · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Cairns
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Cairns recently compared to the rest of Queensland. While 40.6% of residents changed homes in the last five years, this is well below the state figure of 44.8%. This suggests a more settled population than in other parts of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.6% of people moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most areas but slightly lower than the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has fallen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.6% of the population, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a notable drop from 2011, when the proportion of new overseas arrivals was 18.3%.
12.6% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 59% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 12.6%
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 Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/306/cairns/topic/mobility-location