30.5% —
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hughes · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Hughes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much smaller share of people move in and out of Hughes compared to the rest of the country. Only 30.5% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The number of people who moved in the last five years fell slightly to 30.5% since 2016. This is well below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.2% of the population, a figure that has fallen 10 points since 2011. This is well below both the state and national figures, which sit around 14.5%.
6.2% ▼ -62.3%
Lower than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 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 Hughes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED119/hughes/topic/mobility-location