73.9% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.4%
- 2016: 68.0%
- 2021: 73.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Milton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Milton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 73.9% of people in Milton have moved house in the last five years, a figure far above the national average. This high turnover is mirrored by a very large number of recent overseas arrivals, making the area much more mobile than most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 74% of residents moved here within the last five years. This is far above the 44.8% seen across Queensland and 40.7% nationally, placing Milton among the areas with the highest movement levels.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 38.2% of the population. This is far above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national rate of 14.5%, marking Milton as a primary destination for people moving to Australia.
38.2% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 38.2%
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 Milton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31847/milton/topic/mobility-location