41.6% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Prospect · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Prospect
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A shift in movement patterns has shaped Prospect, where more people have moved into the area since 2011. More than 40% of residents arrived in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile population. This trend is seen alongside a significant number of overseas arrivals, although their proportion has fallen over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.6% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the South Australian figure of 36.9% and has risen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 22.7% of the population, a figure well above both the state (15.1%) and national (14.5%) rates. However, this proportion fell by 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
22.7% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 22.7%
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 Prospect [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA46510/prospect/topic/mobility-location