60.6% ▲ +37.6%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 60.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Maiwar · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Maiwar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 60% of people in Maiwar have moved house in the last five years. This is a very mobile population where a high number of residents are new to the area, including a large proportion of people who have arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is common here, with 60.6% of residents arriving in the last five years. This is far above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen 17 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.8% of the population, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This proportion is among the highest for similar areas, though it fell 4 points since 2011.
29.8% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 29.8%
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 Maiwar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30048/maiwar/topic/mobility-location