60.3% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 70.2%
- 2016: 66.3%
- 2021: 60.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Douglas · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Douglas
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 60% of people in Douglas have changed their address in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. This constant churn of residents is driven by both domestic moves and a strong flow of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 60.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far above the Queensland average of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%. 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 21.6% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 13.7% recorded for Queensland.
21.6% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 Douglas [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30871/douglas/topic/mobility-location