40.9% ▲ +335.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
El Arish · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in El Arish
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 40% of residents have moved to El Arish in the last five years, bringing a new wave of people into the area. This represents a huge shift in the local population, with the proportion of recent arrivals jumping by 32 percentage points since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.9% of people moved here within the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. While this is about the same as the national figure, it sits well below the Queensland average of 44.8%.
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 El Arish [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322039/el-arish/topic/mobility-location