31.0% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forestdale · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Forestdale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Forestdale recently compared to the rest of the country, with only 31% changing homes in the last five years. This stability is seen in both local moves and arrivals from overseas, leaving the area much less mobile than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 31% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and well below the 40.7% seen across Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.5% of the population. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the Queensland rate of 13.7%.
5.5% ▼ -34.3%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Forestdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31067/forestdale/topic/mobility-location