35.6% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.0%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
St George · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in St George
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people have arrived from overseas in St George compared to the rest of the country. While about 25% of the population moved here from another country, fewer people have shifted house recently than in most other Australian areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 35.6% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.1% of the population, which is among the highest for this type of area. This is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
25.1% ▼ -24.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 25.1%
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 St George [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32639/st-george/topic/mobility-location