37.3% ▼ -17.5%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Charters Towers · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Charters Towers
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fresh faces are becoming more common in Charters Towers, where nearly one in five residents arrived from overseas recently. While fewer people are moving into the area from elsewhere in Australia compared to the state average, the town is seeing a stronger flow of international arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.3% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%, and the proportion of recent movers has fallen 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International arrivals make up 17.6% of the population, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This represents a rise from 15.9% in 2011 and is much higher than most similar areas.
17.6% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
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 Charters Towers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314007/charters-towers/topic/mobility-location