51.6% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 50.5%
- 2021: 51.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Noosa Heads · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Noosa Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Noosa Heads recently than in previous census years. Over half of all residents—51.6%—have changed their address in the last five years, marking it as a highly mobile area compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A high proportion of the population has moved recently, with 51.6% arriving in the last five years. This is far above the national figure of 40.7% and well above the Queensland rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is also strong here, as 18.2% of people arrived from overseas recently. This is much higher than most areas and well above both the state and national averages.
18.2% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 18.2%
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 Noosa Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32160/noosa-heads/topic/mobility-location