54.5% ▲ +41.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 54.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
River Heads · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in River Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in River Heads have moved house in the last five years. This is a very high rate of movement compared to other similar areas, showing a population that is changing rapidly.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 54.5% of residents moved here within the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has climbed steadily, rising 16 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.0% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is far below the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This proportion has fallen since 2011, when it was 8.6%.
3.0% ▼ -65.0%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 River Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315084/river-heads/topic/mobility-location