57.9% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.0%
- 2016: 57.7%
- 2021: 57.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Biggera Waters · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Biggera Waters
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 58% of people in Biggera Waters have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area one of the most mobile for its size, with a population far more likely to change homes than those in the rest of Queensland or Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 57.9% of residents moved here within the last five years, a figure that is far above the 44.8% seen across Queensland and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 14.2% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas, though this is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
14.2% ▼ -45.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 14.2%
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 Biggera Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30249/biggera-waters/topic/mobility-location