45.3% ▲ +27.6%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooktown · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cooktown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Cooktown have moved here in the last five years. This high churn of people means the town often welcomes new faces, with 45.3% of the population arriving recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.3% of people moved to the area in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 9.8 percentage points since 2011 and is well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.1% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the national average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 9.9 percentage points since 2011.
10.1% ▼ -49.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315024/cooktown/topic/mobility-location