50.9% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 50.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Main Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Main Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Main Beach have moved house in the last five years. This high level of movement makes the area far more mobile than the national average. It is a place where people frequently arrive and settle in.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.9% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the Queensland average and far above the rest of Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.8% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas, though it is a little below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
11.8% ▼ -48.2%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 11.8%
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 Main Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31735/main-beach/topic/mobility-location