48.0% —
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Petrie · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Petrie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Petrie have moved house in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7%, making it a much more mobile area than most across the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48% of people moved here in the last five years, a rate well above the Queensland figure of 44.8%. This high level of movement has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are less common here than in most areas. Only 10.4% of people arrived from another country recently, a figure that has fallen 12 points since 2011 and is well below the national average.
10.4% ▼ -53.9%
Lower than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Petrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED326/petrie/topic/mobility-location