35.9% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
St George · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in St George
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in four people in St George have arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. While the town has seen a rise in people moving in since 2011, it remains more stable than most of Queensland.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.9% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia, though the proportion has risen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the national figure of 14.5% and has climbed 11 points since 2011.
24.7% ▲ +74.4%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 St George [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315089/st-george/topic/mobility-location