46.0% —
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Inner West · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Inner West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 46% of people in the Inner West moved home in the last five years. This makes the area far more mobile than most other parts of the country, reflecting a highly transient population where nearly half of the residents are relatively new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved recently rose to 46% in 2021, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate is much higher than most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.4% of the population, a figure that is a little below both the state and national levels. This is a notable drop from 2016, when the figure was 18.6%.
12.4% —
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 Inner West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14170/inner-west/topic/mobility-location