59.4% —
Higher than 97% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 55.7%
- 2021: 59.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brisbane · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Brisbane
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 60% of people in Brisbane have moved house in the last five years, making it a highly transient place to live. This constant churn of residents is driven by both local movement and a huge influx of people from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Changing homes is very common here, with 59.4% of residents moving in the last five years. This is far above the 40.7% national figure and rose by 3.8 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Newcomers from abroad are also very common, as 28.3% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%, though the proportion fell 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
28.3% ▼ -22.6%
Higher than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 28.3%
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 Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED304/brisbane/topic/mobility-location