46.5% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.5%
- 2016: 43.1%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Innisfail · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Innisfail
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge shift in who lives here has occurred over the last decade, with Innisfail now seeing far more movement than most other areas. Nearly half of the residents have moved here in the last five years, driven by a massive surge in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People moving house is common here, with 46.5% of residents arriving in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area has seen a huge influx of new residents from abroad, with 37.3% arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7% and is among the highest rates for this level of area.
37.3% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.4%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 37.3%
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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31398/innisfail/topic/mobility-location