34.0% ▼ -45.6%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 62.5%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Walkerston · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Walkerston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Walkerston sits around the middle of similar areas for how often people move in and out. Only 34% of residents have moved house in the last five years, and recent overseas arrivals make up just 6% of the population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved into Walkerston recently compared to the state figure of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is a significant shift for the area, as the proportion of people moving house fell by 29 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6% of the population, which is well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national figure of 14.5%. This has declined from 10% back in 2011.
6.0% ▼ -39.3%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 Walkerston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315096/walkerston/topic/mobility-location