diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/PartitionedRegionParser.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/PartitionedRegionParser.java
index 36b97d4a..5d046db3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/PartitionedRegionParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/PartitionedRegionParser.java
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ class PartitionedRegionParser extends AliasReplacingBeanDefinitionParser {
 		// region attributes
 		BeanDefinitionBuilder attrBuilder = BeanDefinitionBuilder.genericBeanDefinition(RegionAttributesFactoryBean.class);
 
+		ParsingUtils.parseStatistics(element, attrBuilder);
 		ParsingUtils.parseExpiration(parserContext, element, attrBuilder);
 		ParsingUtils.parseEviction(parserContext, element, attrBuilder);
 		ParsingUtils.parseDiskStorage(element, attrBuilder);
-		ParsingUtils.parseStatistics(element, attrBuilder);
 
 		// partition attributes
 		BeanDefinitionBuilder parAttrBuilder = BeanDefinitionBuilder.genericBeanDefinition(PartitionAttributesFactoryBean.class);
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/diskstore-ns.xml b/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/diskstore-ns.xml
index c0b499c0..26b79c30 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/diskstore-ns.xml
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/diskstore-ns.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
     
 		
 	<gfe:cache />
+    
+    <gfe:partitioned-region id="partitioned-data-with-timeout">
+        <gfe:entry-ttl timeout="${ttl}" action="DESTROY"/>
+    </gfe:partitioned-region>
 	
 	<gfe:replicated-region id="replicated-data" persistent="true" close="true" destroy="false">
 		<gfe:disk-store queue-size="50" auto-compact="true" max-oplog-size="10" synchronous-write="false" time-interval="9999">