35.2% —
Lower than 80% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Nicholls · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Nicholls
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A high proportion of overseas arrivals makes Nicholls a diverse place to live. While most residents have stayed put for years, nearly one in five people have moved here from another country recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Residents here are more likely to stay in their homes than people in most other areas. Only 35.2% of people moved in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%, though this is 4.3 percentage points higher than it was in 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 18.3% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This is well above the Australian average of 14.5% and has risen since 2011.
18.3% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 76% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 Nicholls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED236/nicholls/topic/mobility-location