42.1% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whitfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Whitfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A significant gap exists between Whitfield and the rest of the country regarding overseas arrivals. While over 40% of residents have moved house recently, the proportion of people arriving from abroad is much lower than the Queensland and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.1% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it sits a little below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.1% of the population. This is well below both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the national average of 14.5%.
8.1% ▼ -32.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Whitfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33065/whitfield/topic/mobility-location