49.4% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 49.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gatton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Gatton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Gatton have moved house in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. This high mobility is driven by a massive surge in overseas arrivals, with the overseas-born population growing by 40 percentage points since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.4% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This trend has risen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 46.2% of the population, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is among the highest proportions for similar areas.
46.2% ▲ +646.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 51.6%
- 2021: 46.2%
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 Gatton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314010/gatton/topic/mobility-location