33.2% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forrest Beach · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Forrest Beach recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 33.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, showing a much steadier population than the national average.
People who moved in the last five years.
About one third of residents moved here in the last five years. This is well below the Australian figure of 40.7% and far below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
33.2% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are rare here, making up just 1.8% of the population. This is far below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national rate of 14.5%.
1.8% ▼ -70.4%
Lower than 69% 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 Forrest Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31072/forrest-beach/topic/mobility-location