52.7% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 55.8%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smithfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Smithfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Smithfield recently than in most similar areas. Over half of the residents—52.7%—have changed their address in the last five years, making it a highly mobile community compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 52.7% of people here moved house in the last five years, a figure far above the national rate of 40.7% and well above the Queensland average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.2% of the population, which is higher than most areas, though this is a little below both the state and national figures.
12.2% ▼ -31.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32579/smithfield/topic/mobility-location