46.2% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 45.7%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hervey Bay · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Hervey Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Hervey Bay have moved here in the last five years. This high level of movement suggests a population in transition, though very few of these new arrivals are coming from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.2% of people moved to the area in the last five years, which is much higher than most other areas. This figure is well above the national average of 40.7% and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.0% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when overseas arrivals made up 25.6% of the area.
7.0% ▼ -72.6%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30033/hervey-bay/topic/mobility-location