44.6% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 77% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 43.7%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brisbane - North · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Brisbane - North
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Brisbane - North have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most other regions, with a movement rate well above the national figure. While internal churn is high, the flow of new arrivals from overseas has dropped significantly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 44.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that rose 2.8 percentage points since 2011. This level of movement is much higher than most areas and sits well above the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Queensland and national figures. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when the proportion of new arrivals was 24.5%.
13.8% ▼ -43.6%
Higher than 50% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 13.8%
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 - North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/302/brisbane-north/topic/mobility-location