61.2% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 54.7%
- 2016: 57.3%
- 2021: 61.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Chermside · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Chermside
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A shift in movement patterns has seen Chermside become a major hub for newcomers, with 61.2% of residents arriving in the last five years. While this area attracts a huge number of new arrivals, the proportion of recent overseas immigrants has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved into Chermside recently than in most similar areas. At 61.2%, this is far above the national figure of 40.7%, and the share of residents moving in has risen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.1% of the population, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 43.4% of the community had arrived from abroad recently.
25.1% ▼ -42.3%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 43.4%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 25.1%
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 Chermside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/302021028/chermside/topic/mobility-location