37.1% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.5%
- 2016: 48.3%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Springwood · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Springwood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp 24 percentage point drop in overseas arrivals since 2011 defines the changing face of Springwood. This area has become much less mobile over the last decade, with fewer people moving in from abroad or from other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 37.1% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is lower than most areas. This figure is well below the national average of 40.7% and has fallen by 6.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 7% of the population, a figure well below the Queensland average of 13.7%. This represents a significant decline from 2011, when 31.3% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
7.0% ▼ -77.7%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Springwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30079/springwood/topic/mobility-location