31.8% ▼ -2.8%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Blue Mountains · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Blue Mountains
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move into or through the Blue Mountains compared to most other areas. Only 31.8% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, a figure well below the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 31.8%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate has also fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.3% of the population, which is far below the 14.5% seen across Australia. This share has dropped by 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
4.3% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Blue Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10900/blue-mountains/topic/mobility-location