43.4% —
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 45.2%
- 2021: 43.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Isa · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Mount Isa
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people move in and out of Mount Isa than in most similar areas. Roughly 43% of residents arrived within the last five years, and the town has seen a significant jump in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little above the national average, though it has fallen slightly since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.1% of the population, a figure that is well above both the Queensland and Australian averages. This proportion has risen sharply by 8.6 percentage points since 2016.
18.1% —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 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 Mount Isa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313009/mount-isa/topic/mobility-location