51.0% ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 50.3%
- 2021: 51.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coopers Plains · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Coopers Plains
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Coopers Plains have changed their address in the last five years. This makes it a highly mobile area where people frequently move in and out, driven largely by a very high number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7% and well above the Queensland rate of 44.8%. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.2% of the population, a figure far above the Queensland average of 13.7% and well above the 14.5% seen across Australia.
24.2% ▼ -30.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 Coopers Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30698/coopers-plains/topic/mobility-location