37.7% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoalhaven · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Shoalhaven
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well below the national rate, only 6.9% of people in Shoalhaven arrived from overseas recently. This shows the area relies less on new international arrivals than most of Australia, even though the number of people moving into the region has risen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than in most similar areas. This figure is a little below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and well below the 40.7% seen across Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals rose to 6.9% by 2021. This is lower than most areas and sits well below both the state figure of 14.9% and the national average of 14.5%.
6.9% ▲ +32.6%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Shoalhaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA16950/shoalhaven/topic/mobility-location