40.3% ▼ -34.9%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.9%
- 2016: 49.3%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairns City · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cairns City
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 30.4% of people in Cairns City arrived from overseas recently, one of the highest rates for any area of this type. This high level of international arrival makes the area a significant hub for new migrants. While international movement is high, overall residential turnover is about the same as the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.3% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the Queensland average of 44.8% and almost identical to the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 30.4% of the population, which is far above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and the 14.5% national average.
30.4% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 30.4%
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 Cairns City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30478/cairns-city/topic/mobility-location