46.7% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hervey Bay · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Hervey Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Hervey Bay have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country, though the number of new arrivals from overseas has fallen significantly.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.7% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the national average of 40.7%. This high level of movement is much higher than most other areas and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.2% of the population, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This proportion has fallen by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
7.2% ▼ -47.4%
Lower than 85% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3009/hervey-bay/topic/mobility-location