62.3% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.4%
- 2016: 64.0%
- 2021: 62.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Petrie Terrace · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people move in and out of Petrie Terrace than in most similar areas. A huge 62.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, making it a very transient place. This high turnover is seen alongside a strong influx of people arriving from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 62.3%, which is far above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%).
62.3% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 28% of the population, a figure far above the national average of 14.5% and the Queensland figure of 13.7%.
28.0% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Petrie Terrace [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32304/petrie-terrace/topic/mobility-location