49.9% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 49.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Chinchilla · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Chinchilla
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Chinchilla have moved house recently, putting the town among the most mobile areas of its kind. This high turnover is seen both in people moving from other towns and a very strong number of arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.9% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 33.3% of the population, a figure far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. While still among the highest for similar areas, this proportion fell by 20 points since 2011.
33.3% ▼ -38.1%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 53.8%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314008/chinchilla/topic/mobility-location