44.2% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 57.6%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairns · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Cairns
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved to Cairns in recent years compared to the national average. While 44.2% of residents shifted home in the last five years, this is well above the 40.7% seen across Australia. This movement reflects a mobile population, though the rate of people moving in has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Recent movers make up 44.2% of the population, which is much higher than in most areas. This figure is about the same as the Queensland average, but it has fallen 13 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.2% of the population, a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has dropped sharply, falling 24 points since 2011.
12.2% ▼ -66.6%
Lower than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3004/cairns/topic/mobility-location