46.7% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 45.2%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hervey Bay · Urban Centre
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, a figure well above the national average. This makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, though the number of people arriving from overseas has dropped sharply in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is well above the Australian figure of 40.7% and has risen by 5.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.2% of the population, which is higher than most areas. However, this is well below the Queensland figure of 13.7% and has fallen by 25 percentage points since 2011.
7.2% ▼ -77.8%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 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/ucl/UCL311002/hervey-bay/topic/mobility-location