37.6% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Innisfail · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Innisfail
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over a quarter of people in Innisfail have arrived from overseas, a figure far above the national average. While the town sees a high number of overseas arrivals, it has a more settled local population than most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.6% of residents moved house 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 national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.4% of the population, placing Innisfail among the highest for this group. This is far above the 14.5% seen across Australia, though the figure fell slightly from 26.7% in 2011.
25.4% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314013/innisfail/topic/mobility-location