49.2% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.6%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 49.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Emerald · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Emerald
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of the people in Emerald have moved house in the last five years, showing a high level of mobility. This shift is driven by both local moves and a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 49.2% of residents moved into the area in the last five years. This is well above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%), placing Emerald among the most mobile areas of its kind.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.7% of the population. This is much higher than most other areas and sits well above the national figure of 14.5%.
20.7% ▼ -43.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 Emerald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30973/emerald/topic/mobility-location