40.5% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tara · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Tara
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A significant shift in population movement has seen Tara welcome many more new residents since 2011. The town now has a much higher proportion of overseas arrivals and people who have moved recently compared to most similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.5% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that rose 4.8 percentage points since 2011. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals have jumped from 0.0% in 2011 to 18.6% in 2021. This means Tara is now well above both the national (14.5%) and state (13.7%) figures for recent arrivals from other countries.
18.6% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 Tara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321099/tara/topic/mobility-location