43.2% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.6%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Highfields · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Highfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have changed homes in Highfields than in most similar areas. While 43.2% of residents moved in the last five years, the number of people arriving from overseas has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Highfields has a very mobile population, with 43.2% of people moving in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is a little below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.2% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 8.0 percentage points since 2011.
6.2% ▼ -56.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313007/highfields/topic/mobility-location