28.4% ▼ -50.0%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.9%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Moores Pocket · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Moores Pocket
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stable living patterns define Moores Pocket, where residents are far more likely to stay put than in other parts of the country. Only 28.4% of the population has changed their address in the last five years, suggesting a settled community with very little churn.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved recently is far below the national figure of 40.7% and the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This makes Moores Pocket less mobile than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.2% of residents arrived from overseas recently, a figure far below both the state and national averages of around 14%.
3.2% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Moores Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31906/moores-pocket/topic/mobility-location