57.5% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.7%
- 2016: 55.7%
- 2021: 57.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southport · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Southport
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people living in Southport have moved house recently, making it a highly transient place to live. A striking 57.5% of residents arrived within the last five years, which is far above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is very common here, with 57.5% of people arriving in the last five years. This is far above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%).
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 22.8% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and 14.5% nationally.
22.8% ▼ -25.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 22.8%
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 Southport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32611/southport/topic/mobility-location