44.8% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West End · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West End
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of all residents in West End (Townsville - Qld) have moved house within the last five years. This high turnover of people makes the area much more mobile than most other places in the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.8% of people here moved in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is about the same as the Queensland average and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.1% of the population, a figure higher than most areas. This is a little below both the Queensland rate of 13.7% and the Australian figure of 14.5%.
12.1% ▼ -46.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 West End [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33034/west-end/topic/mobility-location