58.6% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.6%
- 2016: 57.2%
- 2021: 58.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairns North · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cairns North
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people have moved recently in Cairns North compared to the rest of the country. More than half of the residents have changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a very mobile population. This trend is driven by both local moves and a huge surge in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is very common here, with 58.6% of people moving house in the last five years. This is far above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 26.8% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and the 14.5% national figure.
26.8% ▼ -30.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 26.8%
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 Cairns North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30479/cairns-north/topic/mobility-location