38.2% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Murgon · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Murgon
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far lower proportion of people have recently arrived from overseas in Murgon compared to the rest of the country. While 38.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, the town has seen a very sharp decline in new arrivals from abroad since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people in Murgon have moved house in the last five years than in most similar areas. However, at 38.2%, this is still well below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and a little below the national rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up just 1.7% of the population, which is far below the 13.7% seen across Queensland. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the proportion of recent arrivals was 38.0%.
1.7% ▼ -95.5%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Murgon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315073/murgon/topic/mobility-location