40.4% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cooktown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A steady stream of new residents keeps Cooktown dynamic, with 40.4% of people moving here in the last five years. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it is about the same as the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.4% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%, though it remains much higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.1% of the population. This is well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national figure of 14.5%.
8.1% ▼ -41.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/mobility-location