41.0% —
Higher than 52% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greater Sydney · Capital City
Migration & Movement in Greater Sydney
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A slight drop in new arrivals from overseas marks the recent shift in Greater Sydney's movement patterns. While 15.3% of people moved here from abroad recently, this is a decrease from previous years. Overall, the region remains a dynamic hub where a large portion of the population changes homes regularly.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.0% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is around the middle for similar areas. This figure is a little above the New South Wales rate and has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.3% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the national and state rates. However, this proportion fell by 3.3 percentage points since the 2016 census.
15.3% —
Lower than 58% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 15.3%
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 Greater Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/1GSYD/greater-sydney/topic/mobility-location