39.4% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bowen · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bowen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Bowen recently than in most similar areas, with nearly 40% changing homes in the last five years. The area is particularly welcoming to new migrants, as it has one of the highest proportions of recent overseas arrivals in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.4% of residents moved house in the last five years. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it is still a little below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 28.8% of the population, which is among the highest rates for this level. This is far above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
28.8% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 28.8%
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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30342/bowen/topic/mobility-location