53.2% ▲ +21.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.8%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 53.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in The Gap
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in The Gap have moved house in the last five years. This level of movement is far above the national figure, making the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 53.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 16.4% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most areas and slightly above the national average.
16.4% ▼ -60.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32791/the-gap/topic/mobility-location