55.2% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.2%
- 2016: 55.5%
- 2021: 55.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Fairfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Fairfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Fairfield recently than is typical for the rest of the country. Over half of the residents arrived within the last five years, with a particularly high number of people moving here from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of Fairfield's residents (55.2%) have moved house in the last five years. This is far above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and well above the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above both the national figure of 14.5% and the Queensland figure of 13.7%.
24.7% ▼ -31.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31014/fairfield/topic/mobility-location