56.7% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 64.5%
- 2016: 57.7%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Roxby Downs · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Roxby Downs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roxby Downs stands out among similar areas for how often its people move. Over half the population has changed homes recently, reflecting a highly mobile community where 56.7% of residents arrived in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the people here moved in the last five years, which is far above the figures for South Australia and Australia. This rate is among the highest for similar areas, though it has fallen 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 23.7% of the population, a figure well above the national and state averages. This proportion of recent arrivals has dropped significantly from 43.7% in 2011.
23.7% ▼ -45.7%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 23.7%
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 Roxby Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA46970/roxby-downs/topic/mobility-location