50.6% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 50.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Strathfield · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Strathfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Strathfield have moved into the area in the last five years. This high turnover of people is driven by a strong flow of new arrivals from overseas, making the area much more mobile than the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.6% of people moved house in the last five years, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate has risen 8.8 percentage points since 2011 and is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.9% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has grown by 4.1 percentage points since 2011, contributing to the area's high movement rates.
25.9% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 25.9%
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 Strathfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17100/strathfield/topic/mobility-location