39.4% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 47.4%
- 2016: 47.8%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rockhampton · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Rockhampton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher proportions of people born overseas have settled in Rockhampton compared to most other areas. While 18.1% of residents arrived from overseas recently, fewer people have moved into the city from other regions lately.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure. This is well below the Queensland average and represents an 8.0 point drop since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.1% of the population, which is well above both the state and national figures. This proportion has risen slightly from 17.2% in 2011.
18.1% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3014/rockhampton/topic/mobility-location