44.5% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.1%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmwoods · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Palmwoods
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Palmwoods have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover means the community is shifting more quickly than the national average, though it is common for this part of Queensland.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.5% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.3% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
5.3% ▼ -48.4%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32265/palmwoods/topic/mobility-location