29.1% ▲ +12.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sheldon · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Sheldon
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved house recently in Sheldon compared to the rest of the country. Only 29.1% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, which is much lower than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 29.1% of people moved in the last five years, a figure far below the Queensland rate of 44.8% and the national rate of 40.7%. This puts Sheldon around the middle for its level among similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 2.7% of the population. This is lower than most areas and far below both the Queensland (13.7%) and Australian (14.5%) figures.
2.7% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Sheldon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32550/sheldon/topic/mobility-location