27.2% ▼ -36.2%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.6%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sapphire · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Sapphire
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Sapphire recently compared to most similar areas. Only 27.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, a figure that has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%. This number has fallen by 15 points since 2011, when 42.6% of the population had moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.4% of the population, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This represents a downward trend from 2011, when 8.8% of residents had arrived from overseas.
5.4% ▼ -38.4%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Sapphire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321091/sapphire/topic/mobility-location