41.2% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Atherton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Atherton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Atherton recently than in most similar areas. About 41.2% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, while 12.3% of the population arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 41.2% of people who moved house in the last five years is much higher than in most similar areas, though this is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.3% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas but a little below the Australian figure of 14.5%.
12.3% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30096/atherton/topic/mobility-location