40.2% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Highfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty per cent of Highfields residents have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility means the area has seen a lot of new faces recently, though most are moving from within Australia rather than from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people here moved in the last five years, a figure much higher than most similar areas. While this is about the same as the national figure, it is well below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.7% of the population, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below both the Queensland (13.7%) and Australian (14.5%) figures.
5.7% ▼ -60.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31330/highfields/topic/mobility-location