40.2% —
Higher than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sturt · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Sturt
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 18.5% of people in Sturt arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure. This highlights a strong pull for new migrants to the area, even as a larger share of the population moves house more frequently than the South Australian average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 40.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well above the South Australian average. This proportion has risen by 2.8 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.5% of the population, which is much higher than most other areas and well above the national rate of 14.5%. This figure has fallen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
18.5% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 77% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 18.5%
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 Sturt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED410/sturt/topic/mobility-location