41.9% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Highfields · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Highfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 40% of Highfields residents have changed their address in the last five years. This movement is driven largely by people moving within Australia, as the area sees very few new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.9% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure, though the proportion has fallen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.1% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian averages. This proportion has fallen significantly since 2011, when it was 14.5%.
6.1% ▼ -57.9%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 6.1%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/317011450/highfields/topic/mobility-location