42.7% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rainbow Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rainbow Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost 43% of people in Rainbow Beach have moved house in the last five years, showing a highly mobile population. This constant churn of residents is a key feature of the area, though it sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 42.7% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is slightly above the national figure, though it sits a little below the Queensland average of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.3% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
7.3% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 7.3%
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 Rainbow Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32385/rainbow-beach/topic/mobility-location