42.0% ▼ -26.4%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 57.1%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 42.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Atherton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Atherton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Atherton sees far more people moving in and out than most similar areas, though the pace of change has slowed. While 42% of residents moved home in the last five years, this is a significant drop from the 57.1% seen in 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is a little above the national figure at 42%, though this is a little below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.3% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has fallen by 14 points since 2011 and sits a little below the national average of 14.5%.
12.3% ▼ -54.1%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314001/atherton/topic/mobility-location