46.0% ▲ +13.0%
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooper · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Cooper
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Cooper have moved house recently, making it a much more mobile area than most similar places. This high turnover is seen in the 46% of people who arrived within the last five years, a figure that has risen steadily since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Forty-six per cent of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement is much higher than in most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.3% of the population, which is higher than most areas. This is a little above the Queensland figure, though it has fallen by 14 percentage points since 2011.
15.3% ▼ -48.1%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 15.3%
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 Cooper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30023/cooper/topic/mobility-location