45.7% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.0%
- 2016: 45.0%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Springfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Springfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Springfield recently than in most similar areas. Nearly 46% of residents arrived 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.
About 45.7% of people moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.3% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is well below the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
9.3% ▼ -55.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Springfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32627/springfield/topic/mobility-location