40.0% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hinchinbrook · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Hinchinbrook
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much smaller share of people move into Hinchinbrook from overseas compared to the rest of the state. While 40% of the population changed homes in the last five years, the area sees far fewer new arrivals from abroad than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This is about the same as the national average and represents a slight fall since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.5% of people arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is much lower than most areas. This is well below the 13.7% seen across Queensland and has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
6.5% ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Hinchinbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30035/hinchinbrook/topic/mobility-location