37.7% ▼ -19.7%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.0%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Esk · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Esk
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A shrinking number of newcomers defines the current movement patterns in Esk. Only 2.6% of the population arrived from overseas recently, and the proportion of people moving into the area has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% 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 has fallen 9.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Very few new overseas arrivals live here, with just 2.6% of the population arriving recently. This is far below the national figure of 14.5% and represents a sharp drop from 20.6% in 2011.
2.6% ▼ -87.2%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Esk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315033/esk/topic/mobility-location