46.5% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.5%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Scarborough · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Scarborough
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Scarborough have moved house recently, making it a highly mobile area. About 46.5% of the population changed their home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 46.5%, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Queensland average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.6% of the population. This is well below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
6.6% ▼ -60.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32524/scarborough/topic/mobility-location