45.0% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macleay Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Macleay Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 21 percentage point drop in overseas arrivals defines the shifting population of Macleay Island. While many people move here, the number of new arrivals from other countries has fallen sharply. This makes the island much less international than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly half of all residents, 45%, moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%, though the rate has dipped slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up just 2.2% of the population, which is far below the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This is a steep decline from 2011, when the proportion of recent overseas arrivals was 23%.
2.2% ▼ -90.4%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Macleay Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315055/macleay-island/topic/mobility-location