63.8% ▲ +32.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.1%
- 2016: 66.3%
- 2021: 63.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Isa · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mount Isa
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Some of the highest movement rates in the region are found in Mount Isa, where residents change homes frequently. A huge 63.8% of the population moved in the last five years, making it a far more transient place than most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is far above the national figure of 40.7% and the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 33.3% of the population, which is far above the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 13.7% recorded in Queensland.
33.3% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 Mount Isa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31974/mount-isa/topic/mobility-location