49.8% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 49.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Elliott Heads · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Elliott Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Elliott Heads have moved house recently, a rate far higher than the national average. This creates a high turnover of people in the area, though very few of these newcomers have arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 50% of people here changed their home in the last five years. This is well above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%), placing Elliott Heads among the highest areas for moving.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are rare here, with only 1.9% of people arriving from another country recently. This is far below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national rate of 14.5%.
1.9% ▼ -73.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Elliott Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30969/elliott-heads/topic/mobility-location