Brisbane records fastest growth of any Australian capital city

The Queensland areas with the largest growth were Pimpama on the Gold Coast (up 2700 people), Caloundra West on the Sunshine Coast (up 2200) and Springfield Lakes (up 2000).

The area with the highest growth rate was the booming Ipswich suburb of Ripley (up 20 per cent), followed by Pallara – Willawong in Brisbane’s south (16 per cent) and Pimpama (14 per cent).

Jimboomba, south of Brisbane, had the largest natural increase with 510 people.

Population changes in Australia are now more reliant on interstate migration and the birth rate, due to international borders being closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the ABS data, released on Tuesday, only picks up the first five months of the coronavirus pandemic.

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