44.0% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.1%
- 2016: 45.9%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Townsville · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Townsville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Townsville recently than in most other similar areas. About 44% of residents arrived in the last five years, a figure that sits well above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Recent movement is high, with 44% of people moving here in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 14.5% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 25.4% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
14.5% ▼ -43.0%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303003/townsville/topic/mobility-location