52.7% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Weipa · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Weipa
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Weipa have moved house recently, placing it among the highest areas for migration. This reflects a highly mobile population, with 52.7% of residents arriving within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years rose 7.5 percentage points since 2011 to reach 52.7%. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.4% of the population, which is higher than most areas. However, this is well below the figures for Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%), and fell 13 percentage points since 2011.
9.4% ▼ -57.8%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Weipa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315098/weipa/topic/mobility-location