55.3% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.0%
- 2016: 54.5%
- 2021: 55.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bulimba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bulimba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are moving into Bulimba than in most other parts of the country. Over half the population has changed their address in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile community where many new residents have arrived from both across Australia and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 55.3% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is far above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%), placing Bulimba among the most mobile areas at this level.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International arrivals also play a big part in this growth, with 18.3% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is well above the national figure of 14.5% and the Queensland average of 13.7%.
18.3% ▼ -45.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 Bulimba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30412/bulimba/topic/mobility-location