46.4% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brisbane · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Brisbane
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 46% of people in Brisbane have changed their home in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. This high rate of movement makes Brisbane a more transient place than most other Australian areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 46.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas and 5.7 percentage points above the national figure. This trend has risen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
About 14.1% of people arrived from overseas recently, which is roughly the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia. This level of recent overseas arrival has barely changed since 2011.
14.1% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 14.1%
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 Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3002/brisbane/topic/mobility-location