46.8% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kawana · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Kawana
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of the people in Kawana have moved house recently, making it a very mobile community. While 46.8% of residents arrived within the last five years, far fewer people have recently arrived from overseas compared to the state or national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A high proportion of residents moved into Kawana in the last five years, a figure that has risen since 2011 to reach 46.8%. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and a little above the Queensland average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.5% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This figure is well below the national average of 14.5% and has fallen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011.
9.5% ▼ -48.6%
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Kawana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30040/kawana/topic/mobility-location