53.5% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.5%
- 2016: 51.1%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coolangatta · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Coolangatta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Coolangatta have moved house in the last five years. This high level of churn makes the area far more mobile than most of Australia, with a strong mix of new arrivals from both across the country and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 53.5% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national average of 40.7%. This is among the highest rates of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area also sees high international growth, with 21.3% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is well above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the own Australian average of 14.5%.
21.3% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 21.3%
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 Coolangatta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30680/coolangatta/topic/mobility-location