40.4% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 60% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 43.0%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Townsville · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Townsville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Townsville in the last five years than in most similar areas. While 40.4% of the population changed homes recently, this figure has fallen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.4% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the national figure, though it is well below the 44.8% seen across Queensland.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.1% of the population, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 22.6% of people had arrived from overseas recently.
14.1% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 53% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 14.1%
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/sa4/318/townsville/topic/mobility-location