33.5% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.6%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Blue Mountain Heights · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Blue Mountain Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Around the middle of similar areas for movement, Blue Mountain Heights (L) is a place where people tend to stay put. Only 33.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people moving home has fallen by 9.1 percentage points since 2011. At 33.5%, the rate of movement is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 2.4% of the population, which is far below both the state and national figures. This is a small increase from 2011, when the figure was 0.0%.
2.4% ▲ —
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321017/blue-mountain-heights/topic/mobility-location