40.7% ▲ +3.9%
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Australia · Australia
Migration & Movement in Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Australia has seen a steady shift in where people live, with 40.7% of the population changing their home in the last five years. While internal movement has increased, the proportion of people who arrived from overseas recently has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people are moving home across the country, with the share who changed residences in the last five years rising to 40.7% from 39.2% in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of recent overseas arrivals has fallen to 14.5%, a drop of 4.6 percentage points since the 2011 census.
14.5% ▼ -24.2%
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/aus/AUS/australia/topic/mobility-location