33.5% ▲ +4.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Blue Mountain Heights · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Blue Mountain Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in or arriving from abroad in Blue Mountain Heights compared to most other areas. Only 33.5% of residents changed homes in the last five years, and a tiny fraction are recent overseas arrivals, suggesting a very stable population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 33.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the national figure of 40.7% and far below Queensland's 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up just 2.4% of the population. This is lower than most areas and far below the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
2.4% ▼ -65.0%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30291/blue-mountain-heights/topic/mobility-location