44.4% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shelly Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shelly Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of the people in Shelly Beach have moved here in the last five years. This high turnover means the area is seeing a lot of new faces, although most are coming from within Australia rather than from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and about the same as the Queensland average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 4.2% of people recently arrived from overseas, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 14.5% and well below the state level.
4.2% ▼ -68.6%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Shelly Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32552/shelly-beach/topic/mobility-location