50.4% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 50.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southport · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Southport
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Southport have moved house in the last five years. This high rate of turnover makes it a very mobile area compared to the rest of the country, with a significant number of people arriving from both other Australian cities and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.4% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most other areas. This figure is well above the national average of 40.7% and has risen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.1% of the population, a figure well above the Queensland average of 13.7%. While this remains much higher than most areas, the proportion of new overseas arrivals fell by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
18.1% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 Southport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30078/southport/topic/mobility-location