47.5% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 85% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 47.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Morayfield · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Morayfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Morayfield have changed their address recently, a figure well above the national average. This high churn reflects a population in transition, with 47.5% of people moving into the area in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is much higher than in most other places. Since 2011, the share of people who moved in the last five years has risen by 5.4 points to reach 47.5%, which is a little above the Queensland figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 12.5% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when the share of recent arrivals from overseas was 31.0%.
12.5% ▼ -59.7%
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 12.5%
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 Morayfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30057/morayfield/topic/mobility-location