62.8% —
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 59.6%
- 2021: 62.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sydney · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Sydney
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Sydney recently than in most other parts of the country. About 63% of residents arrived here in the last five years, a figure that sits well above the national average. This high mobility is driven by a significant influx of people from both within Australia and from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People who moved in the last five years make up 62.8% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This proportion has risen by 3.2 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas account for 29.4% of residents, which is far above the 14.5% national figure. This has grown sharply since 2011, when only 8.1% of the population had recently arrived from abroad.
29.4% ▲ +263.1%
Higher than 96% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 29.4%
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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED142/sydney/topic/mobility-location