48.0% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.1%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Chinchilla · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Chinchilla
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Chinchilla have moved here in the last five years, making it a very transient place. This high turnover is driven by a huge influx of people from overseas, with a third of the population arriving from abroad recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48% of people have changed their home in the last five years, which is well above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This rate is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 33.6% of the population, a figure that is far above the national and state averages. This puts Chinchilla among the highest areas at this level for new arrivals from overseas.
33.6% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 33.6%
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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30602/chinchilla/topic/mobility-location