36.7% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burdekin · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Burdekin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much higher share of people have recently arrived from overseas in Burdekin compared to the rest of the state. While only 36.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, over a fifth of the population are new arrivals from abroad. This creates a distinct profile where international migration is more common than moving between Australian towns.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People are less likely to move house here than in most other areas. Only 36.7% of residents moved in the last five years, which is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and has fallen 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.7% of the population, a figure well above the 13.7% seen across Queensland. This proportion is much higher than in most similar areas and rose by 4.8 percentage points since 2011.
21.7% ▲ +28.6%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 Burdekin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30011/burdekin/topic/mobility-location