58.1% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.6%
- 2016: 58.3%
- 2021: 58.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Brisbane · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in East Brisbane
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in East Brisbane have moved house in the last five years. This makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, with a high proportion of residents arriving from both other parts of Australia and from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is very high here, with 58.1% of people arriving in the last five years. This is far above the 44.8% seen in Queensland and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.1% of the population, which is among the highest at this level. This figure is far above both the Queensland average of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
27.1% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 27.1%
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 East Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30919/east-brisbane/topic/mobility-location