37.3% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Scenic Rim · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Scenic Rim
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into or arrive in Scenic Rim compared to the rest of the state. Only 37.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, making it a much more stable area than the national average. This trend towards staying put is mirrored by a sharp drop in new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving house is less common here than in most areas, with 37.3% of people changing homes in the last five years. This is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and has fallen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 5.4% of the population, which is among the lowest for similar areas. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and represents a huge drop from 2011, when the rate was 25.6%.
5.4% ▼ -78.7%
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Scenic Rim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30075/scenic-rim/topic/mobility-location