31.7% ▲ +5.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Taroom · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Taroom
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
One in five residents of Taroom recently arrived from overseas, a figure well above the national average. While the town attracts international newcomers, it is much less likely to see people moving in from other Australian regions than the typical Queensland town.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 31.7% of people moved here in the last five years. This is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and well below the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is well above both the Queensland (13.7%) and Australian (14.5%) figures.
20.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32755/taroom/topic/mobility-location