Analysis of the year of arrival for the overseas born population of FNQROC region in 2021 compared to Mareeba (S) shows that there was a smaller proportion of people who arrived before 2001, as well as a smaller proportion of recent overseas arrivals (those who arrived between 2016 to Aug 2021).
Overall, 48.1% of the overseas born population arrived before 2001, and 15% arrived during or after 2016, compared with 54.8% and 16.4% respectively for Mareeba (S).
The major differences in year of arrival data in the population between FNQROC region and Mareeba (S) are:
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 2001 to 2010 (20.6% compared to 13.4%)
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 1991 to 2000 (11.0% compared to 7.4%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between Arrived in 1960 or earlier (6.4% compared to 11.4%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between 1961 to 1970 (9.0% compared to 13.5%)