41.2% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 57.3%
- 2016: 60.7%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rockhampton · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Rockhampton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five Rockhampton residents arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. While the city attracts many from abroad, the overall proportion of people moving house has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.2% of people moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the national figure, though well below Queensland's 44.8%, and represents a 16 percentage point drop since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.2% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%, although the proportion has fallen by 20 points since 2011.
19.2% ▼ -51.2%
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 19.2%
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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30073/rockhampton/topic/mobility-location