35.5% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Birkalla · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Birkalla
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Birkalla and the rest of the country, with overseas arrivals making up 30.4% of the population. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, fewer residents have moved house recently compared to other parts of Queensland.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.5% of people here moved in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, but it is well below the Queensland rate of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 30.4% of the population. This is far above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and the 14.5% average for Australia.
30.4% ▲ +105.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2021: 30.4%
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 Birkalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30260/birkalla/topic/mobility-location