55.2% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 54.6%
- 2016: 54.8%
- 2021: 55.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
North Sydney · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in North Sydney
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
North Sydney is among the most mobile areas in the country, with over half of its residents moving home recently. This high turnover is driven by both local movement and a strong flow of people arriving from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 55.2% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure far above the national average of 40.7%. This high rate of movement has stayed steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.2% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This proportion has fallen by 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
18.2% ▼ -31.2%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 18.2%
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 North Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15950/north-sydney/topic/mobility-location