36.9% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Currumbin Waters · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Currumbin Waters
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability defines daily life in Currumbin Waters, where residents are much more likely to stay put than in other parts of the state. Only 36.9% of people moved house in the last five years, leaving the area far more settled than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A smaller proportion of people moved here recently compared to other areas, with 36.9% shifting in the last five years. This is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.6% of the population, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
6.6% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Currumbin Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30776/currumbin-waters/topic/mobility-location