24.7% ▼ -34.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Barron · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A high proportion of overseas newcomers defines the changing face of East Barron. While few locals have changed addresses recently, over 20% of the population arrived from another country in the last five years.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 24.7% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is far below the Queensland rate of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%. This means residents here are much less likely to move than people in most other areas.
24.7% ▼ -34.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.9% of the population, which is well above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and 14.5% nationally. This is much higher than in most similar areas.
20.9% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in East Barron [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30918/east-barron/topic/mobility-location