22.8% ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balranald · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Balranald
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Balranald arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. This high level of new international arrivals stands in contrast to a very low rate of people moving between different Australian towns and cities.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 22.8% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate has also fallen by 6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.5% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the Australian average of 14.5% and has risen 13 points since 2011.
29.5% ▲ +74.8%
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 29.5%
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 Balranald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10300/balranald/topic/mobility-location