36.9% ▼ -27.7%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.0%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gordonvale · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Gordonvale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp 11 percentage point drop in overseas arrivals since 2011 marks the recent movement trends in Gordonvale. While more people here have changed homes recently than in most similar areas, the community is far less mobile and sees fewer new arrivals from abroad than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.9% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%, and the proportion of people moving has fallen by 14 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.6% of the population, a figure well below the 14.5% national average. This reflects a significant downward trend, as the proportion of new overseas arrivals fell by 11 points since 2011.
4.6% ▼ -70.1%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 Gordonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314012/gordonvale/topic/mobility-location