62.2% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.9%
- 2016: 58.7%
- 2021: 62.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mermaid Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mermaid Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people move in and out of Mermaid Beach than in most similar areas. A striking 62.2% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is very common here, with 62.2% of people arriving in the last five years. This is far above the 44.8% seen across Queensland and 20 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area also attracts many people from abroad, with recent overseas arrivals making up 20.3% of the population. This is well above both the state figure of 13.7% and the national figure of 14.5%.
20.3% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 Mermaid Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31811/mermaid-beach/topic/mobility-location