44.8% ▼ -0.4%
- 2011: 45.0%
- 2016: 44.1%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Queensland · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Queensland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Queensland changed their address in the five years before the census. This high rate of movement makes the state one of the most mobile in the country, though the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Queensland has a very high rate of movement, with 44.8% of people moving home in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.7% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average. This figure has fallen by 8.4 percentage points since 2011.
13.7% ▼ -37.9%
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 13.7%
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).
More for Queensland
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Queensland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/3/queensland/topic/mobility-location