44.2% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 45.6%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairns · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cairns
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty-four per cent of people in Cairns have changed their home in the last five years. This makes it a very mobile place compared to most other areas, with a movement rate well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than four in ten residents moved recently, which is much higher than most areas. While this is about the same as the Queensland average, the rate has fallen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.2% of the population, a figure much higher than most areas. This is a little below the national and state averages, and has dropped by 8 percentage points since 2011.
12.2% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 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/ucl/UCL303001/cairns/topic/mobility-location