51.4% ▲ +39.5%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Plainland · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Plainland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Plainland have moved house recently, making it a very transient place to live. This shift is clear in the latest data, as 51.4% of residents arrived within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Over half of the population (51.4%) moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far above the national average of 40.7%. This trend has grown steadily, rising 15 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
New arrivals from overseas are rare, making up just 1.6% of the population. This is far below the Queensland figure of 13.7% and represents a steep drop from 32% in 2011.
1.6% ▼ -94.9%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Plainland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321083/plainland/topic/mobility-location