30.0% ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Fairfield · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Fairfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Fairfield since 2011, though the area remains very stable. Only 30% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a population that tends to settle here for the long term.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fairfield is much less mobile than most areas, with 30% of people moving home in the last five years. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.2% of the population, a figure that has risen since 2011. This is a little below the national average of 14.5%.
12.2% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12850/fairfield/topic/mobility-location