71.3% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.4%
- 2016: 71.4%
- 2021: 71.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kelvin Grove · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kelvin Grove
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Kelvin Grove and the rest of the country in terms of resident movement. More than seven out of ten people here have moved house in the last five years, creating a highly transient population compared to the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 71.3% of people who moved here in the last five years is far above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the national rate of 40.7%. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 41.3% of the population, which is far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This high proportion of new international residents helps explain why so many people in Kelvin Grove have changed addresses recently.
41.3% ▼ -28.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.0%
- 2016: 58.3%
- 2021: 41.3%
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 Kelvin Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31500/kelvin-grove/topic/mobility-location