38.3% ▼ -23.8%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 50.3%
- 2016: 51.4%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Cotton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Mount Cotton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into Mount Cotton compared to the rest of the country, with only 4.4% of residents arriving from overseas recently. This highlights a steady local population where both internal and international movement is much lower than the national trend.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.3% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is a little below the Australian figure of 40.7% and well below Queensland's 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.4% of the population, a figure that is far below the national average of 14.5%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when this group accounted for 14% of the area.
4.4% ▼ -68.6%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Mount Cotton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314018/mount-cotton/topic/mobility-location