75.4% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.3%
- 2016: 72.1%
- 2021: 75.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brisbane City · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Brisbane City
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge shift in residency has swept through Brisbane City since 2011, with 75.4% of people moving here in the last five years. This area is now defined by a high turnover of residents and a massive influx of people from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Three quarters of the population moved into Brisbane City within the last five years, a figure far above the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Nearly half of all residents, 46.9%, arrived from overseas recently, which is far above the 13.7% seen across Queensland.
46.9% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.9%
- 2016: 52.7%
- 2021: 46.9%
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 City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30379/brisbane-city/topic/mobility-location