45.0% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.6%
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macleay Island · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Macleay Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents have moved recently, making Macleay Island a more mobile place than most. About 45% of people shifted homes in the last five years, which is well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Forty-five per cent of the population moved house in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits slightly above the Queensland average of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are rare here, with only 2.2% of people arriving from another country recently. This is far below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
2.2% ▼ -44.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Macleay Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31731/macleay-island/topic/mobility-location