37.8% —
Lower than 63% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Spence · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Spence
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals marks the recent movement patterns in Spence, where only 11.2% of residents arrived from another country recently. While few new migrants are arriving, the area has seen a slight increase in people moving into the own region over the last few years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.8% of people moved house in the last five years, which is lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the South Australian average and rose 2.9 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.2% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This represents a significant decline from 2011, when the proportion of recent arrivals was 19.0%.
11.2% ▼ -41.0%
Lower than 64% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Spence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED409/spence/topic/mobility-location