46.2% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 45.6%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmwoods · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Palmwoods
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Palmwoods have moved house recently, putting the town among the highest for mobility at its level. This trend has grown since 2011, though the area remains much less likely to attract new arrivals from overseas than the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.2% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement has increased by 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.7% of the population, a figure that fell since 2011. This is well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
5.7% ▼ -36.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314019/palmwoods/topic/mobility-location