38.0% ▲ +34.7%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 52.9%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Georgetown · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Georgetown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of people in Georgetown have arrived from overseas recently, making it a surprisingly diverse place for its size. This influx of new arrivals has shifted the community's makeup significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than in most similar areas. This figure has risen by 9.8 percentage points since 2011, though it remains well below the Queensland rate 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 Georgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322048/georgetown/topic/mobility-location