50.8% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 53.5%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rocklea · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rocklea
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Rocklea have moved here in the last five years, making it a highly transient place to live. This high turnover is seen alongside a significant number of people who have recently arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population, 50.8%, moved here within the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.2% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
14.2% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 14.2%
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 Rocklea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32451/rocklea/topic/mobility-location