38.8% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.4%
- 2016: 44.5%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Oakey · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Oakey
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived from overseas in Oakey since 2011. While 38.8% of residents moved home in the last five years, the number of recent overseas arrivals has dropped sharply to just 5.3%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than in most similar areas. This is a little below the national figure of 40.7% and well below Queensland's 44.8%, and it has fallen 6.6 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.3% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This figure has fallen by 11 points since 2011.
5.3% ▼ -67.3%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Oakey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315076/oakey/topic/mobility-location