48.2% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 44.9%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gold Coast - Tweed Heads · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads have moved house recently, placing the area among the highest for population mobility. This high churn is driven by internal migration, as the region sees far more people moving in than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.2% of people moved in the last five years, which is well above the 44.8% seen in Queensland and 40.7% across Australia. This figure has risen since 2011, when it was 44.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.7% of the population, which is about the same as the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This is a little below the national average and has fallen slightly since 2011.
12.7% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3007/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/mobility-location