47.3% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.4%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 47.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Plainland · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Plainland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Plainland have moved house in the last five years, reflecting a high level of local turnover. This movement is largely internal, as the area sees very few new arrivals from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.3% of people here moved in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 2.2% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is far below the figures for both Queensland and Australia, which both sit around 14%.
2.2% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Plainland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32340/plainland/topic/mobility-location