35.1% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Griffith · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Griffith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Griffith and the rest of the country when it comes to new arrivals from overseas. While fewer people have moved within Australia to the area recently, nearly 30% of residents have arrived from abroad, a figure far above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.1% of people moved here in the last five years. This is well below the figures for New South Wales (39.9%) and Australia (40.7%), though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 29.1% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the national figure of 14.5% and has climbed 7.1 percentage points since 2011.
29.1% ▲ +32.1%
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 29.1%
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 Griffith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13450/griffith/topic/mobility-location