54.6% ▲ +39.9%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 54.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bokarina · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents have moved to Bokarina in the last five years, marking it as a highly mobile area. This influx of new arrivals is matched by a strong international presence, with many people moving here from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
More than 54.6% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far above the national average of 40.7% and well above Queensland's 44.8%. This rate of movement is among the highest seen in similar areas.
54.6% ▲ +39.9%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is also high, with 16.7% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is a little above the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%), and is much higher than most other areas.
16.7% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Bokarina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30302/bokarina/topic/mobility-location