31.3% ▼ -32.5%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balgal Beach · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Balgal Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people are moving into Balgal Beach than in most other similar areas. The community has become much more stable over the last decade, with very few new residents arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.3% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 46.4% of people had moved recently.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No new arrivals from overseas were recorded in 2021, a figure far below the Queensland average of 13.7%. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when 9.8% of the population had recently arrived from abroad.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Balgal Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321008/balgal-beach/topic/mobility-location