40.2% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.5%
- 2016: 54.6%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dolphin Heads · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Dolphin Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved here from overseas than in the rest of the state, making Dolphin Heads a place with very few recent international arrivals. While 40.2% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, the area sees very little new migration from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the national average, though it sits well below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.0% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is lower than most areas and far below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
3.0% ▼ -90.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Dolphin Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30860/dolphin-heads/topic/mobility-location