41.3% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bowen · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Bowen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Bowen arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is far above the national average. This high level of international migration defines the movement patterns of the area, even as the number of people moving house internally remains steady.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has barely changed since 2011 and sits well below the Queensland average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.8% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this size. This is far above the figures for Queensland and Australia, and the proportion has risen since 2011.
29.8% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 29.8%
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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314006/bowen/topic/mobility-location